divestiture

1. 1.

   an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior

   “the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly”

   Broadercourt order

   law

2. 2.

   the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division

   Broadersale

Other forms of divestiture

plural

divestitures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about divestiture

What does divestiture mean?

divestiture means "an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in divestiture?

divestiture has 4 syllables: di-ves-ti-ture. The stress falls on "ves". In IPA it is /dɪˈvɛstɪtʃɚ/.

Is divestiture a common word?

divestiture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.