verb
- past tense of disinvest; to withdraw or reduce investment from something
Usage: business; finance
Examples
- The company disinvested from fossil fuel projects last year.
- Many universities have disinvested from tobacco stocks.
- The fund disinvested $50 million from the struggling sector.
- Shareholders disinvested after the scandal broke.
- The government disinvested from several state-owned enterprises.
- Pension funds disinvested from companies with poor environmental records.