divestiture
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly
Types & categories
- court order hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
Types & categories
- sale hypernym
Related & opposite
- disinvest derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | strip |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | court order |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disinvest |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sale |