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disinvest

British pronunciation/dˌɪsɪnvˈɛst/
American pronunciation/dˌɪsɪnvˈɛst/
to disinvest
[VERB]
MAIN VERB
1

remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

synonyms : divest
strip
undress
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2

reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)

synonyms : divest
antonyms : invest
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3

deprive of status or authority

synonyms : divest
antonyms : invest
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Examples
1As you know, states have disinvested in public higher ed over the last few decades.
2He's going to disinvest from organizations that don't have a purpose.
3Simultaneously, huge amounts of credit and finance capital were disinvested from the Caribbean and now directed to agrarian frontiers in India, Ceylon, Malaya, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hawaii, and the list goes on.
4I refer to it in terms of the influx of capital reinvestment, and higher SES households into previously disinvested neighborhoods.
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