divestiture

noun

1. The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.

   “Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…].”

   “And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.”

2. The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.

   “Divestiture socialisation tries to strip away certain characteristics of the recruit.”