| 词汇 | divest |
| 释义 | divest verb[ I or T ] mainly USuk /daɪˈvest/ us /dɪˈvest/ to sell something, especially a business or a part of a business: 卖掉，出售（企业或其中一部分） The company is divesting its less profitable business operations.该公司打算出售其盈利较差的业务。 divest yourself of somethingShe has divested herself of (= sold) some of her share-holdings.她已经卖掉了自己的一些股份。 to sell something sellAre you selling your car? retailThe company makes and retails moderately priced sportswear. deal inThey mainly deal in rare books. divestUSThe investors divested themselves of the company's stock. sell offThe company is selling off the less profitable parts of its business. Selling auction Black Friday bundle bundle something with something bundling concession hock network marketing outsell oversell panic selling peddle ply sales drive sales pitch salesmanship sell out sell something off sellout sting Phrasal verbdivest someone of something divest | American Dictionarydivest verb[ T ] us/dɑɪˈvest, dɪ-/ to get rid of an investment, part of a business, etc. by selling: He had encouraged the state to divest such holdings. If you divest yourself of a property, you get rid of it, usually by selling: The company has divested itself of some of its money-losing operations. divest | Business Englishdivest verb[ I or T ] /dɪˈvest/ukus FINANCE to sell an asset, a business, or part of a business, or to reduce the amount of investment in something: The company will be divesting some assets that no longer fit its profile. We have made a decision to divest from the hotel and casinos business to focus more on drinks sales. Phrasal verbdivest yourself of something Examples of divestdivest The divan was the first room entered by bathers who would divest themselves of their clothes in dressing rooms or stalls. However, learning loses much of its explanatory power in relation to governments' decisions to continue divesting. The fourth section details how covering the female bosom was divested of such connotations and endowed with new ones. A direct method is to regard the angular distribution as a weight and divest it from the measured spectrum recorded on the image plane. In diminishing the value of autonomy we divest ourselves of an important principle in the maintenance of general patient welfare. Ironically these enterprises appear to have been relatively less indebted as compared to the enterprises which were divested subsequently. Over 40 per cent of former state owned enterprises have been divested, 50 per cent of which were sold. Out of more than 212 firms, only about 15 per cent have been divested in this way. A man who seeks to divest a guardian of his possession/control of his daughter is termed a criminal. This would be achieved by divesting the deductive method of its metaphysical foundations. This meant, of course, that the proprietor must fully divest himself of his property during his lifetime, a step that many were loath to take. Because raising new capital is difficult for banks during recessions, most weak banks are likely to focus more on divesting and loan reduction. Indeed, he is so thoroughly divested from the notion of even needing to maintain one's good name that he readily takes another. At this juncture both are divested of their individual rights; human relationships are turned into material relations. The space has been divested of its identity as a tourist sight. See all examples of divest These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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