disinvest

present singular third person disinvests · participle present disinvesting · participle past disinvested · past disinvested

1. alsofigurativelytransitiveTo reduce investment, or cease to invest.

   “The institutions whose primary mission is teaching — the masters and community colleges and bachelors colleges, are slowly disinvesting in the teaching function,” Ms. Wellman said.

   2009 January 16, Kate Zernike, “Students Covering Bigger Share of Costs of College”, in New York Times

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   If none of the first four response strategies is attractive or even feasible, the remaining alternative is to disinvest—that is, to withhold or withdraw resources from the business or to exit. This strategy involves shifting investments from a declining […]

   2013, David A. Aaker, Three Threats to Brand Relevance: Strategies That Work, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

   Antonyms: invest