divestiture

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Noun

divestiture (countable and uncountable, plural divestitures)

  1. The act of divesting, or something divested.
    • 2009 January 31, “Procter & Gamble forced to slice view”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:
      Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent […] .
  2. The process of stripping away a person's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate them into an organization. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    • 2009 January 31, Stephen P. Robbins, Organisational behaviour in Southern Africa‎[2], Pearson South Africa, page 432:
      Divestiture socialisation tries to strip away certain characteristics of the recruit.

Translations

act of divesting — see divestment
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