divestment

divestment

English

Etymology

divest +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɛstmənt/

Noun

divestment (usually uncountable, plural divestments)

1. (finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.

   Synonym: divestiture

   Antonym: investment

   The fossil fuel divestment movement is calling on institutions to divest from the companies causing climate change.

   • 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in New York Times‎:

     The divestment movement against Big Carbon is gathering force. While it will never bankrupt the mega-corporations, it can reveal unethical practices while triggering a debate about values that recognizes that such practices are nested in economic systems that encourage, inhibit or even prohibit them.

Translations

sale of some kind of asset

Chinese: Mandarin: 撤資／撤资 (chèzī) Finnish: divestointi French: liquidation (fr) f, désinvestissement (fr) m German: Desinvestition f, Desvestition f Italian: disinvestimento (it) m Japanese: 剥奪 (ja) (はくだつ, hakudatsu) Korean: 매각 (ko) (maegak) Middle English: translatynge Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: desinversión m Swedish: avyttring (sv) c

Further reading

• divestment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia