disinvestments
Selling off assets
Disinvestments are instances of withdrawing capital from assets, businesses, or sectors.
Governments disinvest by selling off state-owned enterprises; companies disinvest by shedding unprofitable divisions; activists pressure institutions toward disinvestment from controversial industries: The university announced disinvestments from fossil fuel companies.
The term often carries political or ethical weight, distinguishing principled withdrawal from ordinary asset sales.
Enforced economic stringency
- cutbacksReductions in spending
- capital flightRapid outflow of investments
- spending cutsReducing governmental expenditures
- economic contractionDecline in monetary activity
resource depletion · fiscal restraint · decline · deterioration · abandonment · neglect · defunding
Rapid mass divestiture
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- spin-offDerivative from a parent
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
privatization · fund withdrawal · asset stripping · retrenchment
austerity
Enforced economic stringency
- cutbacksReductions in spending
- capital flightRapid outflow of investments
- spending cutsReducing governmental expenditures
economic contraction · resource depletion · fiscal restraint · decline · deterioration · abandonment · neglect · defunding
sell-off
Rapid mass divestiture
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- spin-offDerivative from a parent
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
downsizing · privatization · fund withdrawal · asset stripping · retrenchment
disinvestmentsinvestments
Assets bought for profit
acquisitions · capital investments · reinvestments · equity investments · buyouts
disinvestmentsexpansions
Increases in size
build-ups · capital expenditures · business development · scaling up · vertical integration
disinvestmentsinvestments
Assets bought for profit
acquisitions · capital expenditures · reinvestments · funding · capitalizations