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Definition: Divestiture |
DivestitureNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "divestiture" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | The process of requiring monopolistic utilities to spin off one segment of their business; this is done to ensure that uncompetitive advantages created by former government actions are removed so that competition can develop. Divestiture, or vertical disaggregation, serves as a viable alternative to open access to de-monopolize the industry. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | The stripping off of oneutility function from the others by selling (spinning-off) or in someother way changing the ownership of the assets related to that function. Most commonly associated with spinning-off generation assets so theyare no longer owned by the shareholders that own the transmission anddistribution assets. (See also "Disaggregation."). (references) |
Finance | (1) the process of disposing of all or part of a business. (2) the act of taking away property rights. (references) |
Mining | Breakup of AT and T by mandate of the Federal Courts, based on an antitrust accord reached between AT and T and the U. S. Department of Justice, effective as of January 1, 1984. The most notable effects include the separation of 22 AT and T owned local Bell operating companies(BOCs)into seven independent regional Bell holding companies, the requirement that AT and T manufacture and market customer premises equipment through a separate subsidiary and use of the Bell name and logo only by the divested BOCs(RBOCs). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DIC | English | Divestiture Implementation Committee | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Divestiture |
| English words defined with "divestiture": Divesture. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "divestiture": Bell Communications Research, Inc ♦ Lucent Technologies. (references) |
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Business | The continued divestiture by the government of these organizations and the increasing pressure from shareholders for profitability has pressed them to become one of the main hardware consumers. (references) | |
In order to meet the challenges of an increasingly globalised market economy and the demands of an information-intensive society, the Kenyan telecommunication and postal sector has undergone progressive liberalization revolving around, the restructuring of the former Kenya Post and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC), involving separation of telecommunications and postal operations in 1999 into two distinct legal entities, namely Telkom Kenya Limited (Telkom) and the Postal Corporation of Kenya (Posta), in addition to the hiving off of regulatory functions to the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) and divestiture of non-core activities; the establishment of a new regulatory framework, the Kenya Communications Act, enacted in October 1998 providing for a multi-operator environment; the fostering of competition in the sector, through the phased licensing of new players within a defined market structure, set out in a Government blueprint, the Telecommunications and Postal Sector Policy Statement (TPSPS), first published in 1997 and revised in April 1999, to increase customer choice and accelerate investment, and encouragement of active Kenyan participation in the sector, through equity ownership. (references) | ||
Economic History | Tanzania | The remaining parastatals are at different stages of divestiture. (references) |
Philippines | Companies that export 100 percent of production are exempt from this divestiture requirement. (references) | |
Egypt | The Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade monitors the divestiture of the public share in joint venture companies and banks. (references) | |
Political Economy | INDONESIA | In 1994, the government dropped initial foreign equity requirements and sharply reduced divestiture requirements. (references) |
GHANA | The government has announced plans to utilize receipts from the divestiture of state-owned enterprises to reduce the country's debt stock. (references) | |
GHANA | Roughly two-thirds of some 300 state-owned enterprises have been sold to private owners since a divestiture program began in the early 1990s. The new government has stated its commitment to continuing the privatization program by offloading some of its interest in some state-owned enterprises, possibly including the Tema Oil Refinery, power and water utilities, ports and railways, and the national airline. (references) | |
Trade | Ghana | Within the last three years, however, two state-owned banks have been privatized under the government's Divestiture Implementation Program, and others were recently advertised for divestiture. (references) |
Ukraine | Currently the IFC is working on four technical assistance projects in Ukraine: divestiture of unfinished construction sites (financed by the United States Agency for International Development - USAID), corporate governance (financed by the Canadian Agency for International Development, the British Know How Fund and the Government of Japan), business development (financed by USAID), and land reform (financed by the Canadian Agency for International Development, the governments of the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, and the British Know How Fund). (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ghana | On April 2, approximately 600 workers from Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited (GCD) staged a peaceful demonstration at the company's premises in Akwatia, Eastern Region, to protest plans for the company's divestiture. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Divestiture" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Divestiture" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
divestiture | 22 |
divestiture t | 4 |
acquisition divestiture | 4 |
business divestiture | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "divestiture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تجريد (denudation, dismantling, ouster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | събличане (divestment, stripping), лишаване (abscission, deprivation, divestment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zbavení èeho. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | negativ investering, lovbefalet opløsning af trust. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | overdracht (delivery), afstand (abandonment, abdication, cession, distance, offset, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender), afsplitsing (divided out application, divisional application, segregation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | divestointi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | désengagement (disengagement, disentanglement), dépouillement (dispossession), dépossession (dispossession), démembrement (dismemberment), démantèlement (dismantling), cession (disposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zerschlagung (subjection), Trennung (detachment, disconnectedness, disconnection, disestablishment, distinction, division, divorce, parting, partition, secession, segregation, selectivity, separating, separation, severance), Teilung (devide, division, partition, severance), Entblössung (denudation), Abgabe (contribution, delivery, depositing, duty, emission, handing in, submission, tax, tribute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διάσπαση εταιρείας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megfosztás (deprivation, despoliation, dispossession, eviction, privation, stripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dismissione (defeasance, hive-off), privazione (bereavement, deprival, deprivation, hardship, loss, privation, suffering), cessione forzata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 剥奪 (deprivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はく つ (coming off, deprivation, peeling off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 박탈 (Deprivation, Depriving, Divesting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivestitureday desapossamento. (various references) раздевание (divestment), лишение (deprivation, destitution, hardship, privation). (various references) skidanje (divestment, stripping), lišavanje (deprivation, divestment). (various references) despojo (dispossession, divestment, spoil, spoliation). (various references) uppbrytning av kastell. (various references) yoksun bırakma (divestment), elinden alma (divestment). (various references) роздягання (divestment), викривання (divestment, inculpation), позбавлення (bereavement, deprivation, divestment, forfeiture, release, riddance). (various references) sự trừ bỏ (divestment, preclusion), sự tước đoạt (despoiliation, despoilment, divestment, plunder, plunderage), sự lột quần áo sự tước bỏ (divestment), sự gạt bỏ (brush-off, divestment), sự cởi quần áo (divestment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "divestiture": divestitures. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "divestiture": postdivestiture. (additional references) | |
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"Divestiture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: divetiture. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "divestiture" (pronounced dive"stikher or dīve"stikher) |
| 3 | -i kh er | furniture. |
| 3 | -i kh er | furniture. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: revisited, servitude, uveitides. | |
-3 letters: derisive, detritus, dirtiest, rivetted, siderite, tiredest, trusteed, verities, vestured, videttes. | |
-4 letters: deities, derives, deviser, diester, dieters, dirties, ditsier, ditties, diverse, diverts, dustier, erudite, reedits, residue, resited, restive, revised, revisit, revuist, riveted, strived, studier, stuiver, testier, tidiers, tidiest, trevets, trivets, trusted, trustee, ureides, uttered, uveitis, veriest, verites, vesture, vidette, virtues. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: divestitures. | |
+3 letters: redistributive. | |
+4 letters: destructivities, postdivestiture, underactivities. | |
+5 letters: diverticulitises. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 65 73 74 69 74 75 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- . ... - .. - ..- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v e s t i t u r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 0065 0073 0074 0069 0074 0075 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875887185867586878471 |
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