0 present 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.
However, learning loses much of its explanatory power in relation to governments' decisions to continue divesting.
This would be achieved by divesting the deductive method of its metaphysical foundations.
In terms of launching privatisation, the less democratic the regime, the more likely it was to start divesting.
Because raising new capital is difficult for banks during recessions, most weak banks are likely to focus more on divesting and loan reduction.
Banks can increase their capital-asset ratio either by increasing capital (particularly by issuing new equity), or by reducing their assets (divesting, reducing lending).
Shengmin is incapable of divesting himself of the privileges that accrue to him as a man in a patriarchal society.
There can be nothing wrong with divesting a council estate to a housing association.
They require, among other things, that the board should make a commercial plan for identifying and divesting itself of all its underused or surplus property.
