disinvestment
Pulling out funds
Disinvestment is the withdrawal of investment from a company, industry, or region.
Governments disinvest by selling off state-owned enterprises.
Activists pressure institutions toward disinvestment from controversial sectors: The university announced disinvestment from fossil fuels.
The term also describes the gradual decline of capital in neglected infrastructure or communities.
Also called divestment.
Rapid mass divestiture
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
exit · retrenchment · unloading · shedding · dismantling · spinoff · carve-out · unbundling
Rapid outflow of investments
- outflowFluid exiting a system
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- economic migrationMoving for financial opportunity
Government taking private property
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- asset seizureLegal taking of property
- forced saleMandatory transfer of property
Economic decline period
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- bearishExpecting market decline
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
- depreciationAsset value reduction over time
State sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- fiscal austerityReduced government expenditure policy
- budget cutsPlanned spending reductions
sell-off
Rapid mass divestiture
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
downsizing · exit · retrenchment · unloading · shedding · dismantling · spinoff · carve-out · unbundling
capital flight
Rapid outflow of investments
- outflowFluid exiting a system
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- economic migrationMoving for financial opportunity
expropriation
Government taking private property
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- asset seizureLegal taking of property
downturn
Economic decline period
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- bearishExpecting market decline
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
privatization
State sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- fiscal austerityReduced government expenditure policy
- industrial declinedeindustrialization, factory closures, factory closure, plant shutdowns, plant shutdown
- Urban Problemsurban blight, blight, abandoned buildings, vacant lots, crime rates
- urbanizationcity, urban growth, metropolis, urban sprawl, suburbanization
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- getting rid ofunload, disposal, dump, shed, offloading
- urban lifesidewalks, neighborhood, apartments, skyline, buses
disinvestmentinvestment
Deploying capital for returns
reinvestment · funding · capitalization · capital investment · acquisition
disinvestmentexpansion
Increase in scope
growth · acquisition · scaling up · diversification · market entry
disinvestmentengagement
Commitment to wed or attend
commitment · buy-in · doubling down · involvement · reinvestment
invest, investment, investor, vested, investments, divest, reinvest, investors, reinvested