- divestiture - an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior; "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly"
--1 is a kind of court order
Derived form: verb divest1 - divestiture - the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
--2 is a kind of sale
Derived form: verb divest3