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horizontal divestiture

horizontal divestiture noun: the sale or disposal of a business unit or assets to a competing company that operates at the same level of the supply chain.

Noun

horizontal divestiture (countable and uncountable, plural horizontal divestitures)

  1. The sale or disposal of a business unit or assets to a competing company that operates at the same level of the supply chain.
    • No horizontal divestitures were required. The antitrust case itself seems to have slowed technological progress, and it did nothing to make the market any more competitive than it already was in the static sense.1982, Yale Brozen, George Bittlingmayer, Concentration, Mergers, and Public Policy, page 402

Forms of horizontal divestiture

pluralhorizontal divestitures

Questions about horizontal divestiture

What does horizontal divestiture mean?
Horizontal divestiture means the sale or disposal of a business unit or assets to a competing company that operates at the same level of the supply chain.
What part of speech is horizontal divestiture?
Horizontal divestiture is a noun.
What is the plural of horizontal divestiture?
The plural of horizontal divestiture is horizontal divestitures.

Words near horizontal divestiture in the dictionary

  1. horizontal
  2. horizontal bar
  3. horizontal bars
  4. horizontal categorification
  5. horizontal dancing
  6. horizontal divestiture
  7. horizontal divestitures
  8. horizontal escalation
  9. horizontal extension
  10. horizontal gene transfer
  11. horizontal gene transfers

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