divestiture

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun 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
noun the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division

Did the process of divestiture continue? — Ulysses, James Joyce
Tanaka also had clammed up, refusing to talk--beyond a rather firm prediction that our wholesale divestiture of DNI's assets was an insane act doomed to failure. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover

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