divesting
Stripping away holdings
Divesting is the act of getting rid of something—typically assets, investments, or holdings.
Companies divest subsidiaries; investors divest stocks.
The word often appears in contexts of ethical or political pressure: The university is divesting from fossil fuels.
To divest can also mean to strip away or deprive: divesting the office of its authority.
Reducing workforce or scale
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- contractionReduction in size
- pruningCutting vegetation for health
- sheddingLosing outer covering
decoupling · withdrawal · disengagement · retrenchment · exit · repositioning · refocusing · consolidation
Rapid mass divestiture
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- assetsOwned items of value
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
stocks · bonds · securities · holdings · shares · capital · hedge · disposal
Relieving oneself of weight
- releaseTo let go
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- relinquishmentFormal giving up
surrender · renunciation · emancipation · disencumbering · relief · autonomy · independence · self-determination
Organized economic protest
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- activismDirect effort for reform
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
Sudan · ESG · sustainability · campaign · pressure · protest · institutional · university
downsizing
Reducing workforce or scale
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- contractionReduction in size
- pruningCutting vegetation for health
shedding · decoupling · withdrawal · disengagement · retrenchment · exit · repositioning · refocusing · consolidation · rightsizing
sell-off
Rapid mass divestiture
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- assetsOwned items of value
equity · stocks · bonds · securities · holdings · shares · capital · hedge · disposal · unloading
unburdening
Relieving oneself of weight
- releaseTo let go
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
relinquishment · surrender · renunciation · emancipation · disencumbering · relief · autonomy · independence · self-determination · simplification
boycott
Organized economic protest
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- activismDirect effort for reform
- apartheidRacial separation policy
tobacco · Sudan · ESG · sustainability · campaign · pressure · protest · institutional · university · pension
- business activitiesmeetings, meeting, hiring, firing, training
- letting goletting go, forgive, giving up, let go, relinquishing
- eco actionsrecycling, composting, tree planting, water conservation, energy saving
- business statusactive, inactive, defunct, dormant, operating
divestinginvesting
Committing capital for gain
acquiring · purchasing · buying · accumulating · obtaining
divestingaccumulating
Gathering in increasing quantity
amassing · building up · stockpiling · hoarding · collecting
divestinginvesting
Committing capital for gain
vesting · endowing · conferring · bestowing · empowering