take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
divest
How to use divest in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for divest.
Editorial note
I'd argue it's very unlikely he'll divest all of his shares in his baby.
Quick take
take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of divest gathered in one view.
deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
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"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for divest.
verb
take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
verb
deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
See also: disinvest
verb
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"
See also: disinvest
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"
Example sentences
I'd argue it's very unlikely he'll divest all of his shares in his baby.
Boeing should know: not only do they sell to a lot of airlines, they founded United Airlines [0] until they were forced to divest.
So over the next few months Im going to divest myself of all of those investments in an orderly fashion, and Ill update readers on the progress.
You need to divest yourself of subject area responsibilities as quickly as practical by bringing in a team of specialists.
This would be a perfect point for the regulators to harp on for approval... No need to divest, just require a condition of the sale to provide a neutral network.
They are a way for the management class to divest liability or responsibility for decisions.
Apple, the FreeBSD project, the OpenBSD project, etc have all put in efforts to divest themselves of GPL encumbered code because it increased the costs of using the software.
At that point he might as well be beating you because he doesn't like the color of the moon, and you would best get together with some of your friends and divest the lunatic of his crowbar.
Hopefully we'll be as wise as the British and divest ourselves of empire before it destroys us, because it seems like civilizations that do not gracefully exit empire collapse.
Fujifilm never divested itself of its cameramaking arm and continues to make some of the best lenses in the business to this day, and I think that has been a very important strength for them.
Because individuals divesting themselves of a public stock company will result in the stock price dropping which will have a negative impact on the company, encouraging it to do something about the problem.
I know very little about stock market strategy, but presumably this is the most effective way to divest without flooding the market, shocking the market, sending signals, prompting investigations of financial impropriety, etc.
I don't think you can call something a "turnaround strategy" when the result is to cause the company's value to nosedive so far that the most viable means to salvage any of their investors' money is to divest them of their stock at a significant loss.
There's been a lot of wink-wink nudge-nudge over the years to the effect that Fujifilm was subsidized by the Japanese government; to what extent this was the favorable tax deals Kodak also got and to what extent it was real was and is hard to assess, but it is certainly the case that Fuji was not burdened by the antitrust pressure that led Kodak to divest itself of its camera-making arm in the middle of the 20th century.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use divest in a sentence?
I'd argue it's very unlikely he'll divest all of his shares in his baby.
What does divest mean?
take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
What part of speech is divest?
divest is commonly used as verb.