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DISINVESTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disinvestment mean? 

DISINVESTMENT (noun)
  The noun DISINVESTMENT has 1 sense:

1. the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporationplay

  Familiarity information: DISINVESTMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISINVESTMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("disinvestment" is a kind of...):

withdrawal (the act of taking out money or other capital)

Derivation:

disinvest (reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment))


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