Definition of disinvestment
: consumption of capital;
also
: the withdrawing of investment
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In all of these states, Republican legislators paired such disinvestment from education with tax cuts for high-earners and business interests.
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Cities, including Fort Myers, Fla., also contributed to their disinvestment and decline.
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Virtually every state in the union faces some kind of fiscal crisis, as a product of federal disinvestment and rising public-pension costs.
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Because disinvestment has occurred both in rural places and in inner cities.
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East New York was gradually hollowed out by the same cycle of disinvestment that ate away at a lot of formerly middle-class neighborhoods in New York and other American cities over the course of the 1960s and ’70s.
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The plan, engineered by Duane Deskins, hired a year ago to lead efforts to curb youth violence, argues that decades of neglect and disinvestment, of harmful lending and real estate policies, have damaged neighborhoods and drained them of hope.
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Her ethnographic work, building on the perspectives of other black women like LaDonna Redmond, catalogues food-resistance strategies in communities affected by historic disinvestment.
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That Charleston was a small port town with a shrinking population and a decaying center city marked by abandonment and disinvestment.
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First Known Use of disinvestment
1936
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