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divest

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di·vest /daɪˈvest, də-/ verb
1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] technical if a company divests, it sells some of its assets, investments etc 轉讓，出售〔公司部分資産、投資等〕
pressure on hospitals to divest tobacco-related stocks
要求醫院轉讓煙草類股票的壓力
2 divest somebody of something phrasal verbphr v formal 
a) divest yourself of somethingGET RID OF to sell or give away something you own 出售；丢棄〔擁有的東西〕
Dad had long since divested himself of anything valuable.
爸爸早就把所有值錢的東西都賣光了。
b) divest yourself of somethingDCCTAKE OFF CLOTHES to remove something you are wearing or carrying 脫下〔所穿的衣服〕；放下〔所拿的東西〕
Pedro divested himself of his overcoat.
佩德羅脫下大衣。
c) TAKE something FROM somebodyto take something away from someone 使失去，剝奪
The king was divested of all his wealth and power.
國王被剝奪了一切財富與權力。
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divest of • Indeed, some antitrust lawyers said the antitrust issues could have been resolved by divesting selected divisions of a merged company.• Especially, your Assassin must divest herself of every tiny hidden trick.• Edison also said it plans to divest half of its fossil-fuel generation capacity, or a third of its power capacity.• As a result it enters 1993 with the twin objectives of expanding its home sales and divesting some of its landholdings.• The Kinnock reforms were mostly negative - divesting the party of its unsaleable policies.• Courtaulds deputy chief executive Gordon Campbell said Courtaulds made the sale as part of its program to divest itself of noncore businesses.• Nor can a country divest itself of the karmic consequences of its own actions.• And he could return to Bass, which wants to divest itself of yet more pubs.
divest yourself of something• Pinkerton's is divesting itself of $120 million in unprofitable business.• Especially, your Assassin must divest herself of every tiny hidden trick.• Courtaulds deputy chief executive Gordon Campbell said Courtaulds made the sale as part of its program to divest itself of noncore businesses.• Nor can a country divest itself of the karmic consequences of its own actions.• And he could return to Bass, which wants to divest itself of yet more pubs.
divest yourself of something• Especially, your Assassin must divest herself of every tiny hidden trick.• Courtaulds deputy chief executive Gordon Campbell said Courtaulds made the sale as part of its program to divest itself of noncore businesses.• Nor can a country divest itself of the karmic consequences of its own actions.• And he could return to Bass, which wants to divest itself of yet more pubs.
Examples from the Corpus
divest• The operations that will be divested include factories in New Hampshire.• As a result it enters 1993 with the twin objectives of expanding its home sales and divesting some of its landholdings.• But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism.• Lake was officially asked to divest the stocks in October 1993.• We are tackling our problem areas and are divesting those assets which no longer have a strategic fit.
From Longman Business Dictionary
divestdi·vest /daɪˈvest, də-/ verbFINANCE
1[transitiveT] if a group divests one of the companies that it owns, it gets rid of it by selling it
We fulfilled our commitment to shareholders to divest our downstream business by creating a new company.
2[transitiveT] if a company divests assets, it sells them, for example because it needs cash for another activity or to repay debts
Where our competitive position is weak, we have continued to divest assets to help fund more profitable ventures elsewhere.
3[intransitiveI] to reduce the number of your investments by selling some of them
performance reports which may signal that it is time to divest rather than invest
—divestment noun [countableC, uncountableU]
The string of divestments is part of the holding company’s effort to lighten its debt load.
—divestiture noun [countableC, uncountableU]
The divestiture of AT&T in 1984 opened up the US telecommunications equipment market.
Origin divest
(1600-1700) Old French desvestir “to undress”, from Latin vestire “to dress”
di·vest verb
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