Search Result for "divestiture":
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]
