disinvest
verb
dis·in·vest
(ˌ)dis-in-ˈvest 
disinvested; disinvesting; disinvests
: to reduce or eliminate capital investment (as in an industry or area)
Examples of disinvest in a Sentence
Several companies have disinvested from the country to protest its human rights policies.
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District 3 has been disinvested for far too long.
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Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2025
But its decline was hastened by the hundreds of local organizations that protested coal projects, filed lawsuits against regulators and pushed financial institutions to disinvest from the sector.
—Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025
To dig the country out of dire financial straits, Cameron’s government decided to disinvest in social services like the national health service (NHS), education, and transit, particularly the railways.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 July 2024
The outages have reignited calls from frustrated Puerto Ricans to oust the American private companies that recently took over power generation and distribution after Hurricane Maria devastated the island’s already fragile and disinvested electrical grid in 2017.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 14 June 2024
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Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2025
But its decline was hastened by the hundreds of local organizations that protested coal projects, filed lawsuits against regulators and pushed financial institutions to disinvest from the sector.
—Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025
To dig the country out of dire financial straits, Cameron’s government decided to disinvest in social services like the national health service (NHS), education, and transit, particularly the railways.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 July 2024
The outages have reignited calls from frustrated Puerto Ricans to oust the American private companies that recently took over power generation and distribution after Hurricane Maria devastated the island’s already fragile and disinvested electrical grid in 2017.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 14 June 2024
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“Disinvest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disinvest. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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disinvest
intransitive verb
dis·in·vest
ˌdis-ᵊn-ˈvest
1
: to reduce or eliminate capital investment (as in an industry or area)
2
: to give up an investment
insiders force the noncontrolling shareholders to…disinvest—R. C. Clark
R. C. Clark
: to cause to give up an investment
no one is being…disinvested or cashed out—R. C. Clark
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