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n. An act of divesting.

n. The sale, liquidation, or spinoff of a corporate division or subsidiary.

n. the act of divesting, or something divested

n. the sale or liquidation of a subsidiary company, especially if forced by some governing authority

n. The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

n. The act of stripping, putting off, or depriving.

n. In law, the act of surrendering one's effects or any part thereof: opposed to investiture.

n. the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division

n. 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

"Sen. Blanche Lincoln's derivatives proposal, usually referred to as the divestiture or “push down” requirement, is the only worthwhile proposal in the Senate financial regulation bill."

sale    court order   

ouster    divestment    dispossession    and-he    electroplate