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• asset: Even downsizing solvent companies can benefit by divesting an asset that now has a residual value attached.

• business: The company says it is filing for a judicial review in order to gain time in which to divest the business.

• store: We recommend that it also divest five smaller stores where adverse effects would result from the merger.

• company: The question arises how an agreement between shareholders, outside the confines of a formal liquidation, can divest a company of its property?

• number: Some of these, for example GCap's decision to divest a number of stations, are likely to lead to further M&A activity.

Modifying Another Word

• not: The British government thought otherwise; they held that the trekkers could not divest themselves of their allegiance to the Crown.

• also: We recommend that it also divest five smaller stores where adverse effects would result from the merger.

• officially: He then asked if that was a responsibility of which the Home Secretary had now officially divested himself?

• strategically: By strategically divesting consumers finding independent you can't deliver.

• voluntarily: In short, he voluntarily divests himself of many of his divine attributes.