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divestiture
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun divestiture has 2 senses
- divestiture(n = noun.communication) Array - 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; "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly" is a kind of court order
- divestiture(n = noun.act) Array - the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division; Array is a kind of sale
Derived form verb divest1
Derived form verb divest3
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