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• v  deprive of status or authority
  They disinvested themselves of their rights
• v  reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
  There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa
• v  remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
  He disinvested himself of his garments

• divest
• strip
• undress

• invest

News & Articles

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• Stephen Henderson: With Detroit, the bill has come due for our bad decisions
  This is what happens when you systematically disinvest from a region's core city over half a century, while the suburbs grow and regional leaders cheer the economic and social divide that opens up and swallows the area's vitality. This is what happens when those left behind in the city borrow 33 times what the whole place is worth, and continue to make irresponsible promises. And this is what ...
  June 13, 2013 - Detroit Free Press