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Definition of disinvestment
: consumption of capital; also : the withdrawing of investment
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Recent Examples of disinvestment from the Web
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Lindsay Thompson, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School, said the public financing helps address longstanding disinvestment in the community.
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The negative effects of sharp disinvestment now might not be clear for decades, longer than the careers of most policymakers, industry leaders or researchers.
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The AHCA’s disinvestment in mental-health and substance-abuse services would also have major effects on the places that tend to provide care.
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However, some South Side residents expressed concern to board members for any cutbacks in service to areas which already have seen disinvestment and have high unemployment.
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There’s actually been a disinvestment in the public schools ... because there’s no vision on how to re-invest and reinvigorate those schools.
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The uprising, Young now realizes, was the culmination of a downward spiral in South Los Angeles that started 20 years earlier with the rise of white flight, disinvestment and gangs.
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But it is now accompanied by a gesture of surrender, a quiet disinvestment by some of America’s most successful and powerful people.
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First Known Use of disinvestment
1936
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