English noun: divestiture | |||
1. | divestiture (communication) 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 | ||
Samples | The court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | court order | ||
Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
2. | divestiture (act) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | ||
Broader (hypernym) | sale | ||