Synonyms for divestiture
dɪˈvɛs tɪ tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, daɪ-di·vesti·ture

Princeton's WordNet

1. divestiturenoun

   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"

2. divestiturenoun

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

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1. • Court Order
   • Law
   • Sale

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1. List of paraphrases for "divestiture":

   divestment, assignment, assignments, disposals, disinvestment, alienation, conveyance, transfers, cession, transfer, disposal, surrenders

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1. John Flannery:

   We don't feel the need to do a major acquisition or divestiture and I don't want the business distracted from growing earnings, we have five years plus of not growing earnings. We're not going to be a party to that anymore.

2. Tim Dumois:

   If these companies cannot execute the divestiture(s) that gave investors' confidence on their future leverage profile, you would likely see less risk-tolerant investors trim or sell their positions.

3. William John Bennett:

   The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.

4. Andreas Mundt:

   We are carrying out what can be seen as an internal divestiture of Facebook's data, facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data to their Facebook user accounts.

5. Michael Ryan:

   I think it will be a busy year for everyone in the industry, i expect to see a lot of restructuring and cost cutting work, debt for equity transactions, restructuring balance sheet type transactions, sales of assets, divestiture of non-key assets to further shore up (distressed miners') balance sheets.