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单词 divest
释义
divest
verb[IorT]
mainlyUS
uk
/daɪˈvest/us
/dɪˈvest/
tosellsomething,especiallyabusinessor apartof abusiness:
卖掉，出售（企业或其中一部分）
Thecompanyis divestingitslessprofitablebusinessoperations.该公司打算出售其盈利较差的业务。
She has divested herselfof(=sold)some of her share-holdings.她已经卖掉了自己的一些股份。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to sell something
  • sellAre you selling your car?
  • retailThe company makes and retails moderately priced sportswear.
  • deal inThey mainly deal in rare books.
  • divestUSThe investors divested themselves of the company's stock.
  • sell offThe company is selling off the less profitable parts of its business.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Selling
  • auction
  • Black Friday
  • bundle
  • bundling
  • chain of production
  • concession
  • oversell
  • panic selling
  • peddle
  • pile
  • pile it high and sell it cheapidiom
  • point of sale
  • salesmanship
  • sell out
  • sellsomethingoff
  • sellout
  • shift
  • soft sell
  • sold
  • sting
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Phrasal verb

divestsomeoneofsomething
(Definition ofdivestfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

divest| American Dictionary

divest
verb[T]
us
/dɑɪˈvest,dɪ-/
to getridof aninvestment,partof abusiness, etc. byselling:
He hadencouragedthestateto divest suchholdings.
If you divest yourself of aproperty, you getridof it, usually byselling:
Thecompanyhas divested itself of some ofitsmoney-losingoperations.
(Definition ofdivestfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

divest| Business English

divest
verb[IorT]
/dɪˈvest/uk
us
FINANCE
tosellanasset, abusiness, orpartof abusiness, or toreducetheamountofinvestmentin something:
Thecompanywill be divesting someassetsthat nolongerfititsprofile.
We have made adecisiontodivest fromthehotelandcasinosbusinesstofocusmore ondrinkssales.

Phrasal verb

divestyourselfofsomething
(Definition ofdivestfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdivest

divest
The divan was the first room entered by bathers who woulddivestthemselves of their clothes in dressing rooms or stalls.
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However, learning loses much of its explanatory power in relation to governments' decisions to continue divesting.
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The fourth section details how covering the female bosom was divested of such connotations and endowed with new ones.
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A direct method is to regard the angular distribution as a weight anddivestit from the measured spectrum recorded on the image plane.
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In diminishing the value of autonomy wedivestourselves of an important principle in the maintenance of general patient welfare.
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Ironically these enterprises appear to have been relatively less indebted as compared to the enterprises which were divested subsequently.
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Over 40 per cent of former state owned enterprises have been divested, 50 per cent of which were sold.
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Out of more than 212 firms, only about 15 per cent have been divested in this way.
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A man who seeks todivesta guardian of his possession/control of his daughter is termed a criminal.
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This would be achieved by divesting the deductive method of its metaphysical foundations.
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This meant, of course, that the proprietor must fullydivesthimself of his property during his lifetime, a step that many were loath to take.
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Because raising new capital is difficult for banks during recessions, most weak banks are likely to focus more on divesting and loan reduction.
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However, it becomes imperative that the glamorous criminal be divested of any overt threat.
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Indeed, he is so thoroughly divested from the notion of even needing to maintain one's good name that he readily takes another.
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At this juncture both are divested of their individual rights; human relationships are turned into material relations.
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