0 past simple and past participle of divest
1 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.
The fourth section details how covering the female bosom was divested of such connotations and endowed with new ones.
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.
The list of purchasers of divested state-owned enterprises is varied, and includes both foreign and domestic private sector and individual investors.
How does language become divested of its cultural associations?
Out of more than 212 firms, only about 15 per cent have been divested in this way.
However, it becomes imperative that the glamorous criminal be divested of any overt threat.
Indeed, he is so thoroughly divested from the notion of even needing to maintain one's good name that he readily takes another.
