0 the act of selling off a business or businesses, or of no longer investing money in something:
1 the process of selling an asset, a business, or part of a business:
Careful divestment, restructuring, and foreign collaborations assisted their recovery.
The controversy over privatisation policy and cases of divestment of state-owned companies revolves around this problem.
In other cases the director general might need to think about the detailed terms of divestment.
Some observers see such post-merger divestment as inherently destructive, and apply the pejorative label asset-stripping to it.
Many will look at some of the other divestment of powers and not want to do that.
I wish to repeat my arguments against divestment.
I do not suggest that the divestment proposal exceeds what should properly be in private legislation.
That revelation in itself goes a long way to demonstrate why nothing short of full divestment will secure that guarantee.
