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disinvestment Definition

dis·in·vest·ment (dis′in vest′mənt)

noun

a diminution or expenditure of capital investment, as in the failure to replenish inventories or in the sale of a capital item
disinvestment Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • prevent: Ministerial support has been crucial in the past in preventing disinvestment.

Noun used with modifier

  • stock: Other forms of stock disinvestments occur in less direct fashion.

Adjective modifier

  • net: The net disinvestment in tenanted farmland continues, with 4.9 % of the investment assets held in the index sold during 2005.
  • massive: For example, we're investing 62 billion euros of public and private money to overcome the massive disinvestment in public housing.
  • major: There was major disinvestment in schools, hospitals and transport, record unemployment, severe homelessness, insufficient housing.

Modifies a noun

  • strategy: The other disinvestment strategies can be applied at both the competitive and corporate levels.

Preposition: in

  • housing: For example, we're investing 62 billion euros of public and private money to overcome the massive disinvestment in public housing.
  • school: There was major disinvestment in schools, hospitals and transport, record unemployment, severe homelessness, insufficient housing.
  • service: They were also finalizing research into NHS podiatry services for older people in the light of the historical disinvestment in NHS services.