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Invest Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Invest?
[v] make an investment; "Put money into bonds"
[v] place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "We were inducted into the honor society" [v] provide with power and authority [v] furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [v] give qualities or abilities to Synonyms | Synonyms for Invest: adorn | clothe | commit | empower | endow | endue | enthrone | gift | induct | indue | place | put | seat | vest Related Terms | Find terms related to Invest: accommodate | afford | allot | anoint | apparel | arm | array | attire | authorize | base | bedeck | bedrape | beleaguer | bequeath | beset | besiege | bless with | blockade | box | budget | build | build in | bundle up | buy in | buy into | case | chair | close | clothe | clothe with power | compass | compass about | consecrate | contribute | cost | cost out | crate | crown | deck | deputize | devote | dight | disburse | donate | dower | drape | dress | dud | embay | embosom | embox | embrace | empower | enable | encapsulate | encase | encircle | enclasp | enclose | enclothe | encompass | endow | endow with | endue | enfold | enlist | enrobe | enroll | enshroud | enthrone | envelop | environ | enwrap | establish | expend | favor with | fill | fill up | financier | find | fix | fork out | found | fund | furnish | garb | garment | give | go around | go round | go through | grace with | ground | habilitate | harass | harry | honor | imbue | inaugurate | incur costs | induct | ingrain | initiate | inoculate | install | instate | invest in | involve | keep | lap | lay out | lay out money | lay siege to | lay the foundation | leaven | maintain | make an investment | make available | make provision for | muffle up | open the purse | ordain | outlay | pack | package | pay | pay out | pitch | place | place in office | plant | plow back into | plunge | prepare | present | provide | provide for | put | put in | put out | put up | rag out | raiment | recruit | reinvest | replenish | risk | robe | run through | schedule | seat | set | set up | settle on | settle upon | sheathe | shell out | shroud | sign on | sign up | sink | sink money in | smother | soften up | speculate | spend | splurge | squander | steep | stock | store | subsidize | suffuse | supply | support | surround | swaddle | swathe | swear in | throne | throw money around | tire | veil | venture | vest | vest with | wrap | wrap about | wrap up | yield See Also | buy into | consecrate | coronate | cover | crown | drop | enable | equip | expend | fit | fit out | fund | install | job | ordain | order | ordinate | outfit | speculate | spend | throne | tie up Invest In Webster's Dictionary \In*vest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invested}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Investing}.] [L. investire, investitum; pref. in- in +
vestire to clothe, fr. vestis clothing: cf. F. investir. See
{Vest}.]
1. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; --
opposed to {divest}. Usually followed by with, sometimes
by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
2. To put on. [Obs.]
Can not find one this girdle to invest. --Spenser.
3. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in
possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to
adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or
glory; to invest with an estate.
I do invest you jointly with my power. --Shak.
4. To surround, accompany, or attend.
Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the
guilt. --Hawthorne.
5. To confer; to give. [R.]
It investeth a right of government. --Bacon.
6. (Mil.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so
as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent
escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.
7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the ?iew of
obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank
stock.
\In*vest"\, v. i. To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in. |
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