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Divestment is the noun for that move: selling assets or pulling money out of a company, industry, or country. It is another word for . You meet it in finance, , and campus campaigns — fossil-fuel divestment, for example — far more than in everyday chat. It names the whole policy or process, not one small sale. Though actually, people sometimes say divestment when they only mean “we sold one shop”; careful writers keep it for a planned stripping-away of holdings.
撤資
組成divest + -ment. The ending -ment turns the verb into the act or result.
同家族的字
- divestthe verb this noun is built from
- investmentthe opposite noun, built on the same “clothe / put into” root
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
divestmentnoun/daɪˈvɛstmənt/
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businessfinanceThe sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
- The fossil fuel divestment movement is calling on institutions to divest from the companies causing climate change.
- The divestment movement against Big Carbon is gathering force. While it will never bankrupt the mega-corporations, it can reveal unethical practices while triggering a debate about values that recognizes that such practices are nested in economic systems that encourage, inhibit or even prohibit them.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。