Divest, Divestiture
divest (verb) - get rid of, sell a business, take away from
divestiture (noun) - the act of divesting
x divests y of z - x takes z away from y
divest oneself of z - get rid of z, sell z
divest of
divest oneself of
decision to divest
divest businesses
divest subsidiaries
divest enterprises
divest business activities
divest business operations
divest unprofitable business operations
divest an interest in
divest brands
divest by means of an IPO
divest shares
divest shareholdings
hold or divest a stock
divest investment
divest assets
divest power
divest control of
divest authority to
forced to divest
forced to divest by regulations
forced to divest controlling interests in
time to divest rather than invest
merge, divest, start up or close down
divest yourself of all preconceptions
Example sentences:
* The company has plans to divest its biggest money losing subsidiaries.
* The government will divest itself of the moribund state enterprises that it runs.
* The Prime Minister started to divest his interest in the huge company that he owned.
* The large conglomerate planned to divest its shares to the public by means of an initial public offering (IPO).
* Restrictions on investment in each other's airlines should go, and airlines would be allowed to merge, divest, start up or close down. (Source: British National Corpus)
* they were ordered by the court to divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains.
* The company divested itself of many large fixed assets to generate some quick cash.
* The manager may divest his authority to the supervisor to the run the job on site.
* The announced that they were divesting a number of business activities unrelated to their core business as part of their recently-announced retructing operations.
* You will be divested of all your power if your reveal this dangerous secret!
* divest what needs to go, and acquire what needs to be added
(Source: British National Corpus)
* Lenin tirelessly reiterated Clausewitz's dictum, `;war is a tool of policy';, not only to establish the subordination of generals to politicians, but to legitimise war and divest it of taboos. (Source: British National Corpus)
* Oh divest thyself of all these trappings of thy power --; that power which strews thy path with dead and keeps me apart from thee. (Source: British National Corpus)
* Divest yourself of all preconceptions, immediately!
* Foreign firms were forced to divest their controlling interests in telecommunications.
* He divested himself of all his shareholdings in the company.
* The company is divesting its unprofitable business operations.
* Officials and administrators cannot divest themselves of all ideological clothing in the advice which they tender to their political masters, or in the independent decisions which they are in a position to take. (Source: British National Corpus)
* The company decided to divest itself of some of its many brands to reduce its market share.
* The company announced that it would divest itself of its subsidiaries.
* We have continued to divest assets to help fund new promising ventures.
* Will you hold or divest this stock?
* It is now time to divest rather than invest.
* Regulations forced him to divest himself of much of his original investment.
