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disinvestment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | withdrawal |
| Derivation | disinvest |
Examples of disinvestment
disinvestment
This is the dictionary definition of disinvestment, and wildly self-defeating.
From the freep.com
Milwaukee's recent practice has been disinvestment, and the results speak for themselves.
From the jsonline.com
Combine those forces with red lining and disinvestment and you get high rates of poverty.
From the newsday.com
Another version of the boycott is targeted divestment, or disinvestment.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The government holds the stake through the directorate of disinvestment, according to the ad.
From the bloomberg.com
However, they argue that NICE is well positioned to recommend candidates for disinvestment.
From the sciencedaily.com
For years, it suffered from disinvestment, and that wear and tear shows in the neighborhood.
From the abcnews.go.com
The period was one of substantial disinvestment from equity products.
From the hemscott.com
The only solution must be to allow some capital investment to become capital disinvestment.
From the economist.com
- The withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation
- (disinvest) divest: deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
- (disinvest) divest: reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"
- (disinvest) strip: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
- Disinvestment, sometimes referred to as divestment, refers to the use of a concerted economic boycott, with specific emphasis on liquidating stock, to pressure a government, industry, or company towards a change in policy, or in the case of governments, even regime change. ...
- (Disinvest) In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for either financial or ethical objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.
- The process of disinvesting; negative investment
- The process of dilution of the government's stake in Public Sector Undertakings.
- Opposite of capital budgeting decisions, because they concern whether to terminate rather than start an operation. In general, if the marginal cost of a project is greater than the marginal revenue, the firm should disinvest.
