0 to sell something, especially a business or a part of a business:
The company is divesting its less profitable business operations.
She has divested herself of (= sold) some of her share-holdings.
1 to get rid of an investment, part of a business, etc. by selling:
He had encouraged the state to divest such holdings.
The company has divested itself of some of its money-losing operations.
2 to sell an asset, a business, or part of a business, or to reduce the amount of investment in something:
The divan was the first room entered by bathers who would divest themselves of their clothes in dressing rooms or stalls.
However, learning loses much of its explanatory power in relation to governments' decisions to continue divesting.
The fourth section details how covering the female bosom was divested of such connotations and endowed with new ones.
A direct method is to regard the angular distribution as a weight and divest it from the measured spectrum recorded on the image plane.
In diminishing the value of autonomy we divest ourselves of an important principle in the maintenance of general patient welfare.
Ironically these enterprises appear to have been relatively less indebted as compared to the enterprises which were divested subsequently.
Over 40 per cent of former state owned enterprises have been divested, 50 per cent of which were sold.
Out of more than 212 firms, only about 15 per cent have been divested in this way.
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