disinvest
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Definition
- Verb (Transitive & Intransitive):
- To reduce or dispose of a financial investment; to withdraw capital from an asset, business, or region. This is the primary economic and financial meaning. It involves selling off assets or ceasing to invest funds.
- To deprive or strip someone of power, authority, rights, or property. This is a formal or legal usage, meaning to take something of value or status away from a person or entity.
Usage Examples
Verb (Financial):
- The pension fund decided to disinvest from fossil fuel companies due to climate concerns.
- The government pressured the university to disinvest its holdings in the controversial regime.
- The company is disinvesting in its underperforming European division to focus on Asian markets.
Verb (Deprive):
- The court's ruling effectively disinvested the corrupt official of all his political authority.
- The treaty disinvested the former monarch of his hereditary titles.
Advanced Usage
- "to disinvest in [something]": This is the most common construction, specifying the area from which investment is being withdrawn.
- Many funds are now choosing to disinvest in industries with poor environmental records.
- "to disinvest [someone] of [something]": A formal construction for the meaning of depriving.
- The revolution aimed to disinvest the aristocracy of their feudal privileges.
Variants and Related Words
- Divest (verb): A direct synonym for both meanings of 'disinvest'. In modern usage, especially in finance, 'divest' is more common than 'disinvest'.
- The corporation plans to divest its non-core assets.
- Disinvestment (noun): The act or process of disinvesting.
- The disinvestment from the region led to significant job losses.
Synonyms
- Sell off: To sell assets, especially quickly or in large quantities (financial).
- Withdraw: To remove or take away, especially funding (financial).
- Strip: To remove all property, rights, or authority (deprive).
- Deprive: To take something away from someone (deprive).
Phrasal Verbs / Related Constructions
- Disinvest from: To withdraw investment capital from a specific company, sector, or country.
- Activists urged the bank to disinvest from the arms trade.
- Disinvest oneself of: A formal, reflexive construction meaning to rid oneself of something (e.g., responsibilities, attributes). This is very rare.
- He sought to disinvest himself of the burdens of management.
Verb
- 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
- 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
- deprive of status or authority
- he was divested of his rights and his title
- They disinvested themselves of their rights