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disinvestment

/dɪsɪnˈvestmənt/dih-sin-VEST-muhnt
/dɪsɪnˈvɛstmənt/dih-sin-VEST-muhnt

Meaninga stripping out of holdings

Common meaning: the pulling out of invested money

‘apart, away’ + ‘in, into’ + ‘clothing, a garment’ → disinvestment

Journey through time

  1. Latinvestis, -is‘clothing, a garment’
  2. Frenchinvestiture
  3. Englishdisinvestment‘the pulling out of invested money’ · today

dis- also in: disarmdiscerndiscorddisdaindisgust

in- also in: incestinciteinduceinfamyinfant

vest also in: disinvestreinvestment

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin vestis ‘clothing, a garment’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry vestis, p. 1981 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

disinvestreinvestment

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