What does divestment mean?
Divestment means (finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/daɪˈvɛstmənt/ · noun
(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset..
The fossil fuel divestment movement is calling on institutions to divest from the companies causing climate change.
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.
Use divestment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Divestment means (finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset..
Common synonyms include divestiture.
Possible antonyms include investment.
The fossil fuel divestment movement is calling on institutions to divest from the companies causing climate change.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.