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