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.