DIVESTITURE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("divestiture" is a kind of...):

sale (a particular instance of selling)

Derivation:

divest (reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment))

Meaning:

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

Example:

the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("divestiture" is a kind of...):

court order (a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

divest (take away possessions from someone)