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investment

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of investing, or state of being invested. 2 (context finance English) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sound investment ▪ Property is usually a sound investment. an investment boom ▪ the investment boom of the past few years an investment fund (= for buying shares, property, etc in order to make a profit ) ▪ The building ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "act of putting on vestments" (a sense now found in investiture ); later "act of being invested with an office, right, endowment, etc." (1640s); and "surrounding and besieging of a military target" (1811); see invest + -ment . Commercial sense is ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit [syn: investing ] money that is invested with an expectation of profit [syn: investment funds ] outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism ...

Usage examples of investment.

Indeed, Adams not only put his trust in land as the safest of investments, but agreed in theory with Jefferson and Madison that an agricultural society was inherently more stable than any other--not to say more virtuous.

Valiant fortune, some eighteen million and growing due to good investments directed by Arthur Tetrick, should have ensured that Adelia and Charles Valiant need never labor for their bread and butter.

You want me to tell Adelia to be a bit more aggressive with her investments but not to get crazy and, of course, never, ever, on pain of death, to touch the principal.

He saw the national investment in Vietnam draining our disposable strength from Europe and the Middle East and the likelihood that the more we Americanized the war, the less South Vietnam would do for itself.

By the vast reward that the newer system gave to individual enterprise, to technical improvement and to investment, capitalism proved the aptest tool for the creation and preservation of wealth ever devised.

It had been inside the HyperCray that Sergei Iyevenski and his team of bioorganic chemists simulated the process of growing a perfect molecular lattice prior to spending precious investment dollars running hybrid disks through the helifurnaces in the process area.

Something like sixty percent of biotech start-ups failed, so the danger of losing some or all of an investment to bankruptcy was very real.

Projects that were nearing commercialization might be reviewed all the way up to the CEO when multimillion-dollar investments were involved.

Used primarily to purchase investments and assets that Enron wanted to sell, and to provide cash to off-books entities that were also doing deals with the company.

Andrew Fastow, criticizing him for holding a second job as manager of investment funds that did deals with Enron.

As the elite, they would not only be trusted with sensitive deals, they would be given the opportunity to make special, personal investments alongside Enron, deals that could make them rich.

In reply, it may be said that the expense will decrease steadily, when segregation is viewed as a long-time investment, because the number of future wards of the state of any particular type will be decreasing every year.

The sort of investment that he admired so many other German businessmen for making now that the Deutschmark was so highly valued.

FargoBank had recently launched a new investment scheme entirely focused upon top-end electrotechnical corporates: the big AI owners.

I spared an instant to hope fervently that one or both of her five-thousand-dollar investments were deflating at that very moment, and blinked over the bright footlights that lined the stage.