"divestiture" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "horizontal divestiture"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "divestitures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "divestiture (countable and uncountable, plural divestitures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 31, “Procter & Gamble forced to slice view”, in Toronto Star",
          "text": "Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business."
      ],
      "id": "en-divestiture-en-noun-C4JK8bq1",
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "selling something off",
          "sell off"
        ],
        [
          "investment",
          "investment"
        ],
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 31, Stephen P. Robbins, Organisational behaviour in Southern Africa, Pearson South Africa, page 432",
          "text": "Divestiture socialisation tries to strip away certain characteristics of the recruit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization."
      ],
      "id": "en-divestiture-en-noun-k4Mmxfb~",
      "links": [
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "strip",
          "strip"
        ],
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ],
        [
          "confidence",
          "confidence"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "attitude",
          "attitude"
        ],
        [
          "in order to",
          "in order to"
        ],
        [
          "indoctrinate",
          "indoctrinate"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "divestiture"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wes- (dress)",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "horizontal divestiture"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "divestitures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "divestiture (countable and uncountable, plural divestitures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 31, “Procter & Gamble forced to slice view”, in Toronto Star",
          "text": "Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "selling something off",
          "sell off"
        ],
        [
          "investment",
          "investment"
        ],
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 31, Stephen P. Robbins, Organisational behaviour in Southern Africa, Pearson South Africa, page 432",
          "text": "Divestiture socialisation tries to strip away certain characteristics of the recruit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "strip",
          "strip"
        ],
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ],
        [
          "confidence",
          "confidence"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "attitude",
          "attitude"
        ],
        [
          "in order to",
          "in order to"
        ],
        [
          "indoctrinate",
          "indoctrinate"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "divestiture"
}