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Disinvest

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce investment, or cease to invest. also, figuratively, transitive

    "“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."

  2. 2
    remove (someone's or one's own) clothes wordnet
  3. 3
    reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) wordnet
  4. 4
    deprive of status or authority wordnet

Etymology

From dis- + invest.

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