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divestiture

/ divestiture /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
Type of:
sale
Derived:
divest disinvest
noun Sense 2
an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior
"the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly"
Type of:
court order
Derived:
deprive strip divest
Domain:
law jurisprudence
Semantic Complexity
79%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
7
Times Searched
1
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sale court order