a diminution or expenditure of capital investment, as in the failure to replenish inventories or in the sale of a capital item
disinvestment in American English
(ˌdɪsɪnˈvestmənt)
noun
the withdrawal of invested funds or the cancellation of financial aid, subsidies, or investment plans, as in a property, neighborhood, or foreign country
Word origin
[1935–40; disinvest + -ment]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bingo, fluorocarbon, hard core, prime mover, roadblock-ment is a suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state (abridgment; refreshment), a product (fragment), or means (ornament)
Examples of 'disinvestment' in a sentence
disinvestment
That followed two consecutive quarters of net disinvestment.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Other less bulky assets, such as shares, will allow phased disinvestment.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
On disinvestment, there is no clear consensus.
Outlook India (2005)
Campaigns to force disinvestment from companies producing fossil fuels have been called naive and worse.