disinvestment

noun

dis·​in·​vest·​ment ˌdis-in-ˈves(t)-mənt How to pronounce disinvestment (audio)
: consumption of capital
also : the withdrawing of investment

Examples of disinvestment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But as disinvestment and white flight took hold in Philadelphia's working class-neighborhoods, many Jewish people moved out of the city and into suburban towns. Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024 For decades following the 1968 riots, the H Street corridor languished amid chronic disinvestment and the crack epidemic that ravaged surrounding communities. Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023 Too many communities still desperately require significant economic development and infrastructure needs to successfully overcome decades of disinvestment, and this too must be a priority. Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024 Experts and advocates point to numerous possible reasons for this inequity, ranging from culturally biased exam content to systemic disinvestment in communities of color. Grace Rubenstein, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024 But there are vast distinctions between the two sides, the residue of disinvestment and white flight by families like Johnson’s. Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023 But experts say those figures are not enough to make up for decades of disinvestment and mismanagement across the country. Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023 But just like Talia and Malissa, many people in the community had already been navigating a slower-motion crisis for years, one that has swept the whole of the Mississippi Delta over decades of disinvestment and decline. Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 9 July 2023 Soon, that message will be reinstalled in South L.A., where residents are fighting the twin threats of long-term disinvestment and a surge of new real-estate money that supercharges displacement. Curbed, 18 Apr. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of disinvestment was in 1936

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“Disinvestment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disinvestment. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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