Noun
- 1. divestiture, court order
- usage: an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior; "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly"
- 2. divestiture, sale
- usage: the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
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