disinvest
Definitions
Accounting
- verb to reduce investment by not replacing capital assets when they wear out
Banking
- verb to reduce investment by selling shares
Economics
- To allow a stock of capital to become smaller over time, either by selling parts of it or by allowing it to depreciate without replacing it.
- To reduce inventories, either absolutely or by more than any increase in plant and equipment.
- To sell all or a portion of a portfolio of financial assets.
