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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. 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;
- Example: "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly"

2. the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Divestiture \Di*vest"i*ture\ (?; 135), n. The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

divestiture n 1: 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" 2: the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division