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DIVESTITURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divestiture mean? 

DIVESTITURE (noun)
  The noun DIVESTITURE has 2 senses:

1. an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behaviorplay

2. the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a divisionplay

  Familiarity information: DIVESTITURE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIVESTITURE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly

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

court order (a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

divest (take away possessions from someone)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

sale (a particular instance of selling)

Derivation:

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


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