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Divest meaning
To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | To undress.
Example sentences (20)
Campaigners from Divest East Sussex carried a 7ft tall oil barrel which said "Tax big oil - divest now" to County Hall in Lewes, along with a petition demanding the council stop investing in fossil fuels through its pension fund.
Divest UMS worked to divest the UMaine system from fossil fuels.
As the company has previously stated, if it was not successful with either its European Court of Justice jurisdictional appeal or in a final decision of the Fifth Circuit, it would divest GRAIL.
EnBW, which announced plans to partially divest TransnetBW last year, said it expects the deal to be approved by regulatory bodies during the third quarter of the current year, adding it would remain the subsidiary's majority owner.
Fanatics reportedly plans to divest its 60 percent stake in Candy Digital, a sports N.F.T. company.
He explained that he works on his campus to fight against the Boycott Divest and Sanctions movement known as BDS.
He said, “The Federal Government must divest itself of the overwhelming but self-imposed duties for the country to breathe.
I challenge all the eco-terrorists to divest themselves of all their hydrocarbon paraphernalia, and they will quickly see that the emperor has no clothes.
I mostly play on CRTs—which Duo doesn’t support yet—and am looking to divest myself of my old physical game collection, not keep it around, or make it even larger.
In 2021, she became an executive for Climate Action Carleton, where she contributed to the calling on Carleton University to divest from fossil fuel.
In addition, in Q3, we made the decision to divest the pluggable module portion of our silicon photonics business, allowing us to focus on the higher-value component business and optical I/O solutions to enable AI infrastructure scaling.
Instead, Divest is beginning to look toward potential financial gains that may come from divesting from fossil fuels to support its campaign.
Many see Arkansas as leading the latter push; officials there invoked a new law in October that bans certain foreign owners and ordered a Chinese seed company to divest its land.
More importantly, the survey found broad support for an “Invest/Divest” approach to public safety.
Overall, there has not been a lot of monopolization cases that have ended in a court ordering a company to divest itself, said Sean Sullivan, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law who teaches antitrust law.
Perhaps most notably, toward the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, Seattle U became the first university in Washington and the first Jesuit university nationwide to fully divest from fossil fuels.
Reading the new book, I tell him, I wonder if fiction is also a chance to divest himself a little of his BBC objectivity.
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has expressed concern about the Agro Investment Corporation’s reported intention to divest the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) complex.
These reports often note the companies are not directly tied to human-rights abuses but carry a rather extortion-like promise: We’ll consider an upgrade if firms divest from their operations in disputed territories.
Throughout his time in office, President Trump, his family and his Republican allies repeatedly assured the public that his refusal to divest from his businesses wouldn’t lead to any conflicts of interest.