disinvestment
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌdɪs.ɪnˈvest.mənt/ us/ˌdɪs.ɪnˈvest.mənt/ (also divestment)
卖掉股份;撤资;减资
the act of selling your shares in a company or of stopping putting money into a business or other activity
After this disinvestment, the Government's shareholding in the company would come down to 80%. 是次减资后，政府在该公司持有的股份降到了百分之八十。
There has been disinvestment in public health. 在公共卫生领域发生了撤资事件。
This policy would have entailed further divestment in the aerospace industry. 这项政策原本会导致航天工业更多撤资事件的发生。
See: disinvest
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- Activists call for disinvestment from arms companies.
- The problem is the state's disinvestment in higher education.
- There's been massive disinvestment in the last several decades, and unemployment in the city has risen as a result.