disinvestment
noun
dis·in·vest·ment
ˌdis-in-ˈves(t)-mənt 
: consumption of capital
also
: the withdrawing of investment
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has made much of its crusade to undo historic disinvestment and inequities across the city.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
Last summer, Gary partnered with the Notre Dame School of Architecture’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative, which was founded in 2021 to help beleaguered Rust Belt communities recover from decades of disinvestment.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
India is looking to cut its disinvestment and asset monetization goals by 40% — or to less than 300 billion rupees ($3.47 billion) from 500 billion rupees — for the current financial year, domestic media outlet The Economic Times reported earlier this month.
—Lim Hui Jie,anniek Bao, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Once a symbol of America’s industrial might, this majority-Black city – famously known as the home of the Jackson Five – has been buffeted by economic disinvestment, poverty, and crime.
—Patricia Leigh Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
Last summer, Gary partnered with the Notre Dame School of Architecture’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative, which was founded in 2021 to help beleaguered Rust Belt communities recover from decades of disinvestment.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
India is looking to cut its disinvestment and asset monetization goals by 40% — or to less than 300 billion rupees ($3.47 billion) from 500 billion rupees — for the current financial year, domestic media outlet The Economic Times reported earlier this month.
—Lim Hui Jie,anniek Bao, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Once a symbol of America’s industrial might, this majority-Black city – famously known as the home of the Jackson Five – has been buffeted by economic disinvestment, poverty, and crime.
—Patricia Leigh Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Disinvestment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disinvestment. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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