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DISINVESTMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disinvestment mean?
• DISINVESTMENT (noun)
The noun DISINVESTMENT has 1 sense:
1. the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation
Familiarity information: DISINVESTMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("disinvestment" is a kind of...):
withdrawal (the act of taking out money or other capital)
Derivation:
disinvest (reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment))
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