how to pronounce divestment

/daɪˈvɛstmənt/

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divestment is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of divestment in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… it's the the boycott divestment sanction …”

meanings of divestment

noun:

The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.

divestment frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word divestment occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics divestment can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that divestment can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;