asset-stripping
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One campaigner - who contacted BBC Scotland News but declined to be named - said the ongoing development amounted to "asset-stripping a nature site".
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
Owners Colin Goldring and Jason Whittingham have been accused of asset-stripping the Warriors, whose men’s team has been in the Premiership since 2015.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Mr Browder rightly assumed that he had overstepped the mark in his lambasting of Russian tycoons for corruption and asset-stripping.
From Economist ● Jan. 29, 2015
He portrayed himself as a legitimate multi-millionaire businessman when in fact he was a bankrupt who made his living by asset-stripping companies which were in financial difficulty.
From BBC ● May 17, 2013
Separately, the allegations of asset-stripping are both outrageous and completely and utterly untrue.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2011
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