disinvestment
投資引き揚げ
解説 Definition
企業や産業、事業などから資金を引き揚げ、投資対象から外すことを指す名詞。経営上の資産整理や撤退を表す場合もあるが、環境・倫理・政治的な理由から、特定分野への出資をやめる行為を指して使われることも多い。
Disinvestment is the act of taking money out of a business, project, or country instead of continuing to invest in it. It is often used in finance, economics, and politics, especially when people withdraw support for financial or ethical reasons.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
investment（投資）が分かれば、dis- が付いて「投資を外す」と捉えると覚えやすい語です。単なる損失や値下がりではなく、意図して資金を引き揚げる感じが中心。特に ethics・climate・political pressure などの文脈で、企業や基金が特定分野から手を引く場面でよく出ます。divestment とほぼ近いが、まずは『invest の反対方向』と押さえると定着しやすいです。
If `investment` means putting money in, `disinvestment` means pulling it out. The key idea is a deliberate decision, not just losing money by accident. It often appears in topics like politics, ethics, or climate, where groups choose to withdraw support from something.
例文
Many companies announced disinvestment from fossil fuel industries.
多くの企業が、化石燃料産業からの投資引き揚げを発表した。
Disinvestment campaigns aimed to pressure companies to change their policies.
投資引き揚げ運動は、企業に方針転換を迫ることを目的としていた。
The disinvestment strategy was used as a tool for social and political change.
その投資引き揚げ戦略は、社会的・政治的変化を促す手段として用いられた。
disinvestment の類義語・関連語
disinvestment の語源・成り立ち Etymology
disinvestment は dis-「外す」と investment からなり、核の invest はラテン語 investire「衣を着せる・まとわせる」に由来します。金を“着せて持たせる”投資を取り外す感覚なので「投資の引き揚げ」となり、関連語に invest, divestment があります。
Disinvestment is made from dis- "remove" and investment. The core of invest goes back to Latin investire, meaning "to clothe" or "to cover," because investing once had the sense of putting something into a role or surrounding it. From there, investment came to mean putting money into something, and disinvestment became the act of taking that money out. Related words include invest and divestment.
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