in·vest

(ĭn-vĕst′)

v. in·vest·ed, in·vest·ing, in·vests

v.tr.

1. To commit (money or capital) in order to gain a financial return: invested their savings in stocks and bonds.

a. To spend or devote for future advantage or benefit: invested much time and energy in getting a good education.

b. To devote morally or psychologically, as to a purpose; commit: "Men of our generation are invested in what they do, women in what we are" (Shana Alexander).

3. To endow with authority or power: The Constitution invests Congress with the power to make laws.

4. To install in office with ceremony: invest a new emperor.

5. To provide with an enveloping or pervasive quality: "A charm invests a face / Imperfectly beheld" (Emily Dickinson).

6. Archaic

a. To clothe; adorn.

b. To cover completely; envelop.

c. To surround with troops or ships; besiege.

v.intr.

1. To make investments or an investment: invest in real estate.

2. To purchase with the expectation of benefit: We decided to invest in a new car.

[From Italian investire and from French investir, both from Latin investīre, to clothe, surround : in-, in; see in-² + vestīre, to clothe (from vestis, clothes; see wes- in Indo-European roots).]

in·vest′a·ble, in·vest′i·ble adj.

in·ves′tor n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

investor - someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns

capitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)

contrarian - an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors

bear - an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price

bondholder - a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation

bull - an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

caller - an investor who buys a call option

depositor - a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution

lender, loaner - someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters

rentier - someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments

shareholder, shareowner, stockholder - someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation

Translations

مُسْتَثْمِرمُسْتَثْمِرٌ

investor

Investor Kapitalanleger Anleger

sijoittaja

investitor

befektetőberuházóinvesztáló

fjárfestir

investitore risparmiatore

投資者

투자자

investor

vlagatelj

investerare

นักลงทุน

yatırım yapan kimseyatırımcı

nhà đầu tư

投资者

investor

[ɪnˈvestəʳ] N → inversionista mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

investor

[ɪnˈvɛstə^r]

(in country, project) → investisseur/euse m/f
the main investor in the project → le principal investisseur dans ce projet

(= shareholder) → investisseur/euse m/f
It is likely that investors will face losses → Les investisseurs devront probablement faire face à des pertes.

modif [confidence, protection] → des investisseurs

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

investor

n → Kapitalanleger(in) m(f), → Investor(in) m(f); the small investor → die Kleinanleger pl

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

investor

[ɪnˈvɛstəʳ] n (gen) → investitore/trice; (shareholder) → azionista m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

invest¹

(inˈvest) verb

(with in) to put (money) into (a firm or business) usually by buying shares in it, in order to make a profit. He invested (two hundred dollars) in a building firm.

inˈvestment noun

1. the act of investing.

2. a sum of money invested.

inˈvestor noun

a person who invests money.

investor

→ مُسْتَثْمِرٌ investor investor Investor επενδυτής inversor sijoittaja investisseur investitor investitore 投資者 투자자 investeerder investor inwestor investidor инвестор investerare นักลงทุน yatırımcı nhà đầu tư 投资者

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He was at home again, incognito and rich; presently he could enter his father's house by means of the pass-key, which he had piously preserved through all his wanderings; he would throw down the borrowed money; there would be a reconciliation, the details of which he frequently arranged; and he saw himself, during the next month, made welcome in many stately houses at many frigid dinner-parties, taking his share in the conversation with the freedom of the man and the traveller, and laying down the law upon finance with the authority of the successful investor. But this programme was not to be begun before evening - not till just before dinner, indeed, at which meal the reassembled family were to sit roseate, and the best wine, the modern fatted calf, should flow for the prodigal's return.

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Kreis came to Martin one day - Kreis, of the "real dirt"; and Martin turned to him with relief, to receive the glowing details of a scheme sufficiently wild-catty to interest him as a fictionist rather than an investor. Kreis paused long enough in the midst of his exposition to tell him that in most of his "Shame of the Sun" he had been a chump.

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Bert was trying to impress Tom with the idea that the reconstructed Grubb & Smallways offered unprecedented and unparalleled opportunities to the judicious small investor. It was coming home to Bert, as though it were an entirely new fact, that Tom was singularly impervious to ideas.

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Not that we are philanthropists, but that we need the investors in our big development scheme.

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As time went by, and the scent, according to the Ancient Mariner, grow hotter, all three of the investors in the adventure came to going aloft.

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On the floor they were pounding half a dozen stocks in which Maxwell's customers were heavy investors. Orders to buy and sell were coming and going as swift as the flight of swallows.

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Speculative investors occasionally deal in such things.

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What with the Jay Cooke failure, the Hayes-Tilden deadlock, and the bursting of a hundred railroad bubbles, there was very little in the news of the day to encourage investors.

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Most investors were locally employed and made up for 65.6 percent of investor count.

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Being an IOSCO member, the SECP participated in World Investor Week (WIW) 2017 by carrying out activities with professional bodies, entrepreneurs, corporate bodies and students.

SECP launches World Investor Week

Dong-chan has been going on overseas trips every month to attract foreign investors. He has visited big global players such as foreign pension funds and asset management firms.

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In fact, IR officers with financial experience earn 20 percent more than their IR counterparts who came to the profession from a marketing/communications background, according to a survey published by the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI).

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