divestiture : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: divestiture	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for divestiture
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
divestiture n 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" the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Divestiture \Divest"iture\ (?; 135), n. The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.