Synonyms for disinvestment
ˌdɪs ɪnˈvɛst məntdis·in·vest·ment

Princeton's WordNet

1. disinvestmentnoun

   the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation

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1. • Withdrawal

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1. List of paraphrases for "disinvestment":

   divestment, divestiture

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How to use disinvestment in a sentence?

1. Lawrence Brown:

   When you combine the psychological impact of racism, anti-blackness, economic conditions, red-lining, disinvestment.

2. Ritchie Torres:

   Many of these buildings are old. Not every apartment has a fire alarm. Most of these buildings have no sprinkler system. And so the risk of a fire is much higher in lower-income neighborhoods in The Bronx than it might be elsewhere in New York City or in the country, when we allow our affordable housing developments to be plagued by decades of disinvestment, we are putting lives at risk. These buildings are wide open to catastrophic fires that can cost people their lives, including the lives of children.

3. Mukaibar Shah:

   Disinvestment has put economy in bad shape.

4. San Francisco:

   The root causes of crime are driven by poverty, by decades of disinvestment, by systemic racism.

5. Michele Suffredin:

   I am more concerned about the disinvestment in education. This is a short-term pain for us and, at some point, we will go back.