Divestment
noun
The action of selling off business interests or investments.
The company is considering divestment of one of its business units.
Often appears as...
- strategic divestment
- divestment strategy
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Academic
noun
An attempt to make a company or government change its policies, often related to moral or political issues, by pressuring it to sell off its investments.
There's a growing movement for divestment from fossil fuel companies due to environmental concerns.
Often appears as...
- fossil fuel divestment
- divestment campaign
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Academic
noun
The action of selling off business interests or investments.
The company is considering divestment of one of its business units.
Often appears as...
- strategic divestment
- divestment strategy
Usage tips
Academic
noun
An attempt to make a company or government change its policies, often related to moral or political issues, by pressuring it to sell off its investments.
There's a growing movement for divestment from fossil fuel companies due to environmental concerns.
Often appears as...
- fossil fuel divestment
- divestment campaign
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Divestment often relates to strategic business decisions, emphasizing the sale aspect.
The telecom giant announced a divestment of its overseas operations.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Health
Divestment may imply improving a company's financial situation by selling underperforming units.
To reduce debt, the firm completed the divestment of its manufacturing division.
Pro Tip 3/3Market Focus
Companies divest to focus on core markets or areas of strength.
The divestment allows us to concentrate on our core software business.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Divestment often relates to strategic business decisions, emphasizing the sale aspect.
The telecom giant announced a divestment of its overseas operations.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Health
Divestment may imply improving a company's financial situation by selling underperforming units.
To reduce debt, the firm completed the divestment of its manufacturing division.
Pro Tip 3/3Market Focus
Companies divest to focus on core markets or areas of strength.
The divestment allows us to concentrate on our core software business.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Divestment often relates to strategic business decisions, emphasizing the sale aspect.
The telecom giant announced a divestment of its overseas operations.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Health
Divestment may imply improving a company's financial situation by selling underperforming units.
To reduce debt, the firm completed the divestment of its manufacturing division.
Pro Tip 3/3Market Focus
Companies divest to focus on core markets or areas of strength.
The divestment allows us to concentrate on our core software business.
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
and I think that we understand we have always understood that that is what's at stake you know that's why we take to the streets that's why we organize because we're fighting a genocide 'el culture you know that would starve us and we see that in divestment and neoliberal
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Bill Gates: The...
And so, you know, just divestment alone is not going to be the thing that creates the new alternative and brings the cost of that down. So the finance side will be important because the speed of deployment --
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
and I think that we understand we have always understood that that is what's at stake you know that's why we take to the streets that's why we organize because we're fighting a genocide 'el culture you know that would starve us and we see that in divestment and neoliberal
Video examples
Bill Gates: The...
And so, you know, just divestment alone is not going to be the thing that creates the new alternative and brings the cost of that down. So the finance side will be important because the speed of deployment --
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Quote examples
Alan Bennett
English Dramatist
Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
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Judith Butler
American Philosopher
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.
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Rashida Tlaib
American Politician
We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.
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Naomi Klein
Canadian Journalist
The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
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Joshua Cohen
American Writer
I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.
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Naomi Klein
Canadian Journalist
I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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Naomi Klein
Canadian Journalist
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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Linda Sarsour
American Activist
I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.
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Urjit Patel
Indian Economist
Divestment measures would improve overall banking sector health.
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Alan Bennett
English Dramatist
Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.
Quote examples
Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Quote examples
Judith Butler
American Philosopher
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.
Quote examples
Rashida Tlaib
American Politician
We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.
Quote examples
Naomi Klein
Canadian Journalist
The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
Quote examples
Joshua Cohen
American Writer
I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.
Quote examples
Naomi Klein
Canadian Journalist
I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
Quote examples
Naomi Klein
Canadian Journalist
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Quote examples
Linda Sarsour
American Activist
I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.
Quote examples
Urjit Patel
Indian Economist
Divestment measures would improve overall banking sector health.
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