Associations to the word «Divestiture»

Wiktionary

DIVESTITURE, noun. The act of divesting, or something divested
DIVESTITURE, noun. The sale or liquidation of a subsidiary company, especially if forced by some governing authority

Dictionary definition

DIVESTITURE, noun. 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; "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly".
DIVESTITURE, noun. The sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne