divestiture

Noun divestiture has 2 senses

• divestiture(n = noun.communication) - 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"
is a kind of court order
Derived form verb divest₁

• divestiture(n = noun.act) - the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division;
is a kind of sale
Derived form verb divest₃