Divestment vs. Disinvestment — What's the Difference?

In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.

Disinvestment refers to the use of a concerted economic boycott to pressure a government, industry, or company towards a change in policy, or in the case of governments, even regime change. The term was first used in the 1980s, most commonly in the United States, to refer to the use of a concerted economic boycott designed to pressure the government of South Africa into abolishing its policy of apartheid.

To strip, as of clothes.

Withdrawal of capital investment from a company or country.

To deprive, as of rights or property; dispossess.

The process of disinvesting; negative investment.

To free of; rid

The withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation

To sell off or otherwise dispose of (a subsidiary company or an investment).

(Law) To devest.

(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.

The act of divesting.