n. the court-ordered or voluntary giving up of a possession or ri...

A complete asset or investment disposal such as outright sale or liquidation.

  The stripping off of one utility function from the others by selling (spinning-off) or in some other way changing the ownership of the assets related to that function. Stripping off is most commonly [..]

Divestiture refers to firms selling part of their current operations, divisions or subsidiaries.

The sale, liquidation, or spin-off of a division or subsidiary.

c. 1600, from divest on analogy of investiture. Economics sense is from 1961.

The disposition or sale of an asset by a company or government entity. It may be voluntary or ordered by a court.

The court-ordered separation of the Bell Operating Telephone Companies from AT&T.

Definition Disposition or sale of an asset by a company. A company will often divest an asset which is not performing well, which is not vital to the company's core business, or which is worth mo [..]

Also known as "spin off," this refers to the disposition or sale of a subsidiary company or asset.

Sometimes, when a company is floundering or needs restructuring, it doesn't require complete liquidation. It can use divestiture instead.Divestiture means shedding certain company assets or busin [..]

1 : the sale or transfer of title to a property (as an operating division) under court order (as in bankruptcy) 2 : the sale of an asset (as a business division) that is unprofitable, does not ...

The selling of assets by a regulated utility as part of deregulation. In almost all cases, divestiture refers to generation assets being sold - e.g. power plants.

The sale of some of a company's operating assets.

Divestiture is the act of selling off all or part of an investment. When a company sells off a business unit, for example, it's said to be divesting that unit. Divestiture is also known as divest [..]

or divestment is the reduction of an asset or business through sale, liquidation, exchange, closure, or any other means for financial or ethical reasons. It is the opposite of investment.

The break-up of AT&T as a result of a settlement between the U.S. department of Justice and AT&T. Prior to 1984, AT&T was comprised of Bell Labs, AT&T Long Lines, Western Electric, and 22 Bell Operating Companies.

Divestiture is a disposition or sale of an asset by a business, such as through sale, spinoffs, split-ups, split-offs, tracking stocks, IPO carveouts, recapitalizations, merger securities, post-bankru [..]

(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(n) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary [..]

The stripping off of one utility function from the others by selling or in some way changing the ownership of the assets related to that function.  This term is most commonly associated with spinning off generation assets so that they are no longer owned by the shareholders that own the transmission and distribution assets.  Divestiture, or legal s [..]

Distribution of an organization's assets and configuration items by means of liquidation, sale or other deacquisition activity.

Large public or private parent corporations selling off non-core business units.

n. the court-ordered or voluntary giving up of a possession or right, to prevent monopoly or other restraint of trade.

Sale of a segment of a company (assets, a product line, a sub sidiary) to a third party for cash and/or securities.

The breakup of AT&T and the Bell System by the U.S. Justice Department in 1984 is an example of a divestiture. To end an illegal monopoly, AT&T was ordered to separate itself from its 22 local Bell operating companies, which were reorganized into seven RBOCs. AT&T was then restricted to the long distance business, while the RBOCs were l [..]

the act of divesting, or something divested the sale or liquidation of a subsidiary company, especially if forced by some governing authority * date=January 31, 2009|author=|title=Procter & Gambl [..]

A complete asset or investment disposal such as outright sale or liquidation.