divestiture

Meanings

Plural: divestitures

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
  • "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly"
• the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
• The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
• The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.