How to Use divestiture in a Sentence

divestiture

noun
Definition of divestiturenext
  • Before divestiture, the telephone company monopolized the state.
  • Carrizo has sold off some $530 million in assets in a divestiture program this year.
    — Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Sinclair’s recent divestiture proposals have stoked the fires of an already controversial deal.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Though Dibadj did not address other potential divestitures by health players, others in the sector are reviewing non-core assets.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Coke’s revenue fell in the quarter because of divestitures of its U.S. bottling operations.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The cash raised from a divestiture can be used for other, more attractive initiatives, or can be used to return capital to shareholders, through stock buybacks or dividends.
    — Lonne Jaffe, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
  • He is known for his work in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate strategy and global operations.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The divestiture is expected to close by the end of March.
    — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Net sales were down about 12% from the same time last year, due to the divestiture of certain pet food brands.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Whether more divestitures could again prove to be the spark eBay needs remains to be seen.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Among the half below the threshold, the FTC required just three divestitures.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • The closing of the divestiture is dependent on the closing of the CVS-Aetna deal.
    — Allison Prang, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Duffy, the Justice Department lawyer, tried to close the door on more divestitures.
    — Michael Casey, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The companies would aim to close the deal within six months and expect to make no divestitures, the person said.
    — Jonathan Roeder and Craig Giammona / Bloomberg, Time, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Pai's statement did not say which station divestitures would break the law.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • The divestiture bill is not the only one to appear on Beacon Hill this session.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
  • The divestiture of GE’s Baker Hughes oil and gas business was less of a surprise.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
  • But selling off the business, known as a divestiture, might not be enough, the memo acknowledges.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Without the divestiture, the broadcast giant would have owned more than 200 stations across the country.
    — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The largest divestiture this year is an $11 billion deal to sell its locomotive unit.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2018
  • This is of a piece with federal efforts to force a Meta divestiture of Instagram.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • There is no obvious buyer for BP’s Russian stake, and the company warned that the divestiture would force it to take a large write-off in the first quarter.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The loss was tied to the divestiture of certain life-insurance businesses.
    — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • The soap-making operation was the last of the big divestitures at the facility.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The judge asked both sides if there were other divestitures by JetBlue and Spirit that might make the merger acceptable.
    — Michael Casey, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Critics argue that the aim is to make divestiture more difficult.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The divestiture proposal will be filed in federal court and opened to public comment for 60 days.
    — Marcy Gordon, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • Flannery and his team are working on some $20 billion worth of divestitures, and have floated the idea that one or more of the company’s core businesses could be spun out.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Khan has been skeptical of divestitures as an effective tool to promote competition.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Johnson, the House speaker, incorporated the TikTok ban (revised with the extended divestiture timeline) into the emergency supplemental appropriations bill in a bid to win Republican support for the package of foreign aid.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024

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