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n. A deposit of money into a specified service or in the purchase of an item or commodity with the expectation that the value of the deposit will increase over time.
Usage examples of "financial investment".
The argument was logical enough, but he couldn't quite ignore the fact that she was talking about the possible loss of a financial investment, one he was certain no corporation like Manpower would ever assume in the first place if it couldn't afford to write it off in the event of disaster.
I had little alternative, for the major financial investment in the house had been made by him: our investment had been no more than love and labour.
On the hilltop sat a more fanciful machine, Ornithopter Number Three, the product of heavy mental, physical, and financial investment, the fulcrum upon which these very grounds had been leveraged, the culmination of years of work and countless dreams of escaping Earthly encumbrances.