Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

divestiture

/dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English

Syllables: di-vesti-ture
IPA: /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…]."
"And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics."
"Divestiture socialisation tries to strip away certain characteristics of the recruit."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/
British English: /daɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

divestitures (plural)

Derived Forms

postdivestiture predivestiture

Phrases

horizontal divestiture

Questions

How do you pronounce divestiture?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/.
What does divestiture mean?: The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.

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