divestment

English

Etymology

divest +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɛstmənt/

Noun

divestment (usually uncountable, plural divestments)

1. (finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.

   Synonym: divestiture

   Antonym: investment

   The fossil fuel divestment movement is calling on institutions to divest from the companies causing climate change.

   • 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The divestment movement against Big Carbon is gathering force. While it will never bankrupt the mega-corporations, it can reveal unethical practices while triggering a debate about values that recognizes that such practices are nested in economic systems that encourage, inhibit or even prohibit them.

Translations

sale of some kind of asset

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撤資／撤资 (chèzī)

• Finnish: divestointi
• French: liquidation (fr) f, désinvestissement (fr) m
• German: Desinvestition f, Desvestition f
• Greek: εκποίηση (el) f (ekpoíisi), αποεπένδυση (el) f (apoepéndysi)

  Katharevousa: ἐκποίησις f (ekpoíēsis), ἀποεπένδυσις f (apoepéndusis)

• Italian: disinvestimento (it) m
• Japanese: 剥奪 (ja) (はくだつ, hakudatsu)
• Korean: 매각 (ko) (maegak)
• Middle English: translatynge
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: desinversión m
• Swedish: avyttring (sv) c

Further reading

• divestment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia