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

Matched Categories

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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How to use divestiture in a sentence?

1. Harry Broadman:

   It could be that the divestiture demand is the end of the discussion, but it’s also equally likely that the divestiture is a component of what CFIUS wants in terms of safeguarding national security, unless I’m in the room at CFIUS, it’s really hard to know where the discussions are, and frankly, what’s discussed in public does not often coincide with what’s going on around the table.

2. 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.

3. Matthew Cantor:

   If Cigna-Anthem craters, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Justice Department agreeing to some kind of divestiture package.

4. Cemex Philippines:

   The filing of the registration statement with the Philippine SEC is a first step in one of the alternatives CEMEX is exploring in the context of CEMEX's previously announced asset divestiture plan.

5. Chief Executive Greg Hayes:

   We’re done shrinking UTC with the completion of this divestiture.