Divestment
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
Liquidation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process of converting into cash (or into an asset with high liquidity).The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
Example sentence: The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.