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divested

/dih-vest, dahy-/US // dɪˈvɛst, daɪ- //UK // (daɪˈvɛst) //

已剥离,已撤资,已剥离的,剥离的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdispossess; take off

Examples

  • 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.