Difference between Sell and Divest

SELL vs DIVEST: NOUN

Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
Take away possessions from someone
Deprive of status or authority
Reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
To undress, disrobe.
To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary

To give; furnish.
To give over; give up; deliver.
To give up or make over to another for a consideration' transfer ownership or exclusive right of possession in (something) to another for an equivalent; dispose of for something else, especially for money: the correlative of buy, and usually distinguished from barter, in which one commodity is given for another.
To make a matter of bargain and sale; accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty or trust; take a bridge for; betray.
5. To impose upon; cheat; deceive; disappoint.
To betray by secret bargains: as, the leaders sold out their candidate for governor.
To dispose of goods or property, usually for money.
To be in demand as an article of sale; find purchasers; be sold.
To dispose of all one's shares in a company, all of one's interest in a business, or all of one's stock as of a given commodity.
In stock-broking, to dispose in open exchange of shares contracted to be sold, but not paid for at the time specified for delivery, the original purchaser being required to make good the difference between the contract price and the price actually received.
Do business
(idiom) (sell down the river) To betray the trust or faith of.
(idiom) (sell short) To underestimate the true value or worth of.
(idiom) (sell a bill of goods) To take unfair advantage of.
(idiom) (sell short) To contract for the sale of securities or commodities one expects to own at a later date and at more advantageous terms.

Cease to hold (an investment)
Reduce or dispose of
To strip off; throw off.
To strip by some definite or legal process; deprive: as, to divest a person of his rights or privileges; to divest one of title or property.
To strip of clothes, arms, or equipage; hence, to strip of anything that surrounds or attends; despoil: opposed to invest: as, to divest one of his reputation.

Auction, Fetch, Dispose, Liquidate, Vend, Divest, Peddle, Unload, Sale, Resell, Purchase, Buy, Betray, Deal, Trade

Forgo, Forfeit, Surrender, Forego, Waive, Renounce, Cede, Relinquish, Abandon, Dispose, Diversify, Sell, Strip, Dispossess, Deprive

Offer, Resale, Auction, Fetch, Dispose, Liquidate, Peddle, Unload, Sale, Resell, Purchase, Buy, Betray, Deal, Trade

Pander, Transfer, Acquiesce, Oust, Forfeit, Surrender, Forego, Waive, Abandon, Dispose, Diversify, Sell, Strip, Dispossess, Deprive

Which place is best to sell your used furniture depends on what you want to sell and if you are willing to ship it.
The guide price is as an indication of what a house might sell for rather than for what it definitely will sell for.
Commercial properties can sell for much more than residential, but it can take a very long time for them to sell.
Some companies employ agents or brokers to sell policies, while others sell policies directly through the mail or their web sites.
Product Maint displays the sell matrix cell for the selected contract in Sell Matrix Maintenance, if you are authorized.
Can I sell my primary home and buy investment property and sell it or rent it?
For a relisting strategy, competition on the sell side increases the chances that someone will try to undercut our sell orders.
And so I always try and sell, you know, just sell the value.
Sometimes items sell out, especially at office supply stores that sell supplies for less than a dollar!
Sell, or attempt to sell, any form of substance.

Oxford University divest its endowment from fossil fuels.
NAB may seek to divest such remaining shares.
BC to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
Fully divest himself or herself of the interest.
ANT: Disarray, disarrange, confuse, jumble, divest, denude, strip.
ANT: Degrade, remove, relegate, dethrone, banish, deprive, divest.
Renal settled by agreeing to divest three clinics.
Later, the bank would divest its overseas subsidiaries.
In that circumstance, the Commission may appoint a trustee to divest the product if the parties fail to divest the business as required.
To divest or not to divest from the fossil fuel industry?