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divest
English
Etymology
Alteration of devest, from Middle French devester (“strip of possessions”), from Old French desvestir, from des- (“dis-”) + vestir (“to clothe”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /da??v?st/, /d??v?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Verb
divest (third-person singular simple present divests, present participle divesting, simple past and past participle divested)
- (transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
- Synonyms: deprive, dispossess
- (transitive, finance) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.
- Synonym: sell off
- Antonym: invest
- 2011, Alfred Schipke, Why Do Governments Divest?: The Macroeconomics of Privatization, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 6:
- It is argued that from a fiscal point of view, governments should divest only if this leads to an improvement in the intertemporal budget constraint. However, it is shown that policymakers are instead inclined to divest public assets as a means of […]
- 2018, Ravi Kanbur, Henry Shue, Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA (?ISBN), page 146:
- Building from this argument, we can now turn to arguing the moral case why individuals should divest from fossil fuels. We can flesh out what is wrong with continuing investments in the fossil fuel industry in terms of the role that an agent […]
- (transitive, archaic) To undress.
- Synonyms: undress, disrobe
- Antonym: dress
Usage notes
In sense "sell off", stronger than related disinvest, which instead means "reduce or cease new investment".
Derived terms
- divestiture
- divestment
Related terms
- disinvest
Translations
Anagrams
- divets, stived
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unboy
English
Etymology
un- +? boy
Verb
unboy (third-person singular simple present unboys, present participle unboying, simple past and past participle unboyed)
- (transitive) To divest of the traits of a boy.
Usage notes
- The forms unboys and unboying are vanishingly rare or non-existent.
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