divest 的定义
- to strip of clothing, ornament, etc.: The wind divested the trees of their leaves.
- to strip or deprive, especially of property or rights; dispossess.
- to rid of or free from: He divested himself of all responsibility for the decision.
- Law. to take away or alienate.
- Commerce. to sell off: to divest holdings.to rid of through sale: The corporation divested itself of its subsidiaries.
divest 近义词
dispossess; take off
更多divest例句
- Georgetown made another step toward its sustainability goals earlier this year when officials shared plans to divest from fossil fuel companies, in part because of the threat of climate change.
- He said fully divesting from any specific industry is very complicated.
- When they come, it’s likely that the Justice Department and FTC antitrust cases will include a request, among other remedies, that key properties be divested to restore competition.
- With a great strategy, you should see solid results by six months, and even more solid results by a year, but these results don’t just disappear the second you decide to divest and reallocate your marketing budget to something else.
- “I think police culture has become radically divested from the communities they’re supposed to serve,” Ginzel said.
- The time is ripe—and right—for action to begin that would divest Russia of the World Cup and award it to another nation.
- Waters has become a regular of the various campaigns to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel.
- The Presbyterians decided to divest in 2004, and the reaction from establishment Jewish organizations was swift.
- They put all their weight into defeating the proposal to divest--and they won, but by a measly two votes.
- Their first goal would be to force the university endowments to divest themselves of shares in these banks.
- I endeavoured to divest myself of all selfish bias, and loved more and more to inquire into religious subjects.
- So shall you compass the glory of the whole world, and divest yourself of the abjectness of humanity.
- Yet if we could only divest it of its evil smell, the wild Wood Garlick would rank among the most beautiful of our British plants.
- So we see that the State of Illinois did not quite divest itself of the barbarisms of the common law.
- Divest chivalry of the religious element, and you take away its glory and its fascination.