| dives | The Board of Trustees voted to divest the organization's overseas holdings. |
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| Dives | n. [ L., rich. ] The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the “Rich Man and Lazarus” (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Divest | v. t. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ] The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Divestible | a. Capable of being divested. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Divestiture | n. The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Divestment | n. The act of divesting. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Divesture | n. Divestiture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| divest | (v) deprive of status or authority, Syn. disinvest, Ant. invest, Example: he was divested of his rights and his title; They disinvested themselves of their rights |
| divest | (v) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment), Syn. disinvest, Ant. invest, Example: The company decided to divest; the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property; There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa |
| divestiture | (n) 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, Example: the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly |
| divestiture | (n) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division |