reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the univeristy to disinvest in South Africa"
deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
If something or someone is divested of a particular quality, they lose that quality or it is taken away from them. in the 1960s, when sexual love had been divested of sin They have divested rituals of their original meaning = strip. if a company divests, it sells some of its assets, investments etc (desvestir , from vestire )
To dispose of government property (e g , industrial facilities, equipment and material)
To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc
If you divest yourself of something that you own or are responsible for, you get rid of it or stop being responsible for it. The company divested itself of its oil interests. = rid
deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights
{f} strip, denude, remove clothing or other covering; dispossess, deprive of; get rid of; take away rights (Law); transfer rights through sale
To strip, deprive or dispossess oneself of something (such as a right, passion, privilege or prejudice)
remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
A business strategy in which a company sells off a business unit in order to focus resources on a more profitable or promising market