Divestment vs. Divestiture

Divestmentnoun

(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.

Divestmentnoun

The act of divesting.

Divestment

In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.

Divestiturenoun

The act of divesting, or something divested.

Divestiturenoun

The process of stripping away a person's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate them into an organization.

Divestiturenoun

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Divestiturenoun

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;

Divestiturenoun

the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division

Divestiturenoun

the action or process of selling off subsidiary business interests or investments