disinvest

[dis-in-vest]

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in disinvestment.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject (capital goods) to disinvestment.

disinvest

/ ˌdɪsɪnˈvɛst /

verb

1. (usually foll by in) to remove investment (from)

2. (intr) to reduce the capital stock of an economy or enterprise, as by not replacing obsolete machinery

Other Word Forms

• disinvestment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of disinvest¹

First recorded in 1620–30; dis- ¹ + invest

Example Sentences

When asked how to decrease health disparities, Goodman says, “Make every community a healthy place to live. We have healthy communities in this country. We’ve just chosen to systematically disinvest in certain ones.”

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“Even if a board said ‘Yes, we want to disinvest,” I think it would be complex to identify and then very, very slow to enact without there being financial consequences.”

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“What I fear is if our government agencies bail on transit, and we choose to disinvest from operations there, riders don’t view transit as being a reliable option anymore,” Lee said.

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“If you disinvest in it, then people won’t use it. But if you invest in it, arguably more people will use it because it actually becomes a service that’s usable.”

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The country has to play catch-up, critics say, because government leaders have moved too slowly in the past decade to disinvest from fossil fuels and to abandon archaic policies that subsidize dirty sources of energy.

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