divest
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law verb
To sell off or dispose of a business, asset, or shareholding.
Regulators required the group to divest its overlapping logistics arm.
Business verb
To sell off a subsidiary, holding or line of business.
The conglomerate divested its loss-making chemicals arm to focus on healthcare.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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