About The Word Investment
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Investment
Investment Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Investment?
[n] the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit
[n] outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism [n] money that is invested with an expectation of profit Synonyms | Synonyms for Investment: investing | investment funds Related Terms | Find terms related to Investment: accouterment | aerial tactics | airborne tactics | appanage | apparel | applied tactics | armament | armored tactics | array | attire | barrier tactics | bedizenment | beleaguerment | besiegement | blockade | blockading | catering | cavalry tactics | chandlery | clothes | clothing | costume | defensive strategy | diversion | dot | dower | dowry | drapery | dress | dressing | duds | empowerment | enablement | encirclement | encompassment | endowment | envelopment | equipment | fashion | fatigues | feathers | feint | fig | finding | fire tactics | fitting out | foundation | furnishing | furnishment | garb | garments | gear | guise | habiliment | habit | infantry tactics | infiltration | investiture | jointure | legal jointure | linen | logistics | marriage portion | mob tactics | mobile tactics | outfitting | pincer movement | pincers movement | plunge | portion | preparation | prime investment | procurement | providing | provision | provisioning | purveyance | rags | raiment | reinforcement | replenishment | resupply | retailing | risk | robes | selling | settlement | shock tactics | siege | speculation | sportswear | strategy | style | subsidization | subsidy | subvention | supply | supplying | tactics | thirds | threads | togs | toilette | trim | venture | vertical envelopment | vestment | vesture | victualing | wear | wearing apparel See Also | arbitrage | assets | cutis | finance | leverage | leveraging | pellicle | skin | speculation | tegument | venture Investment In Webster's Dictionary \In*vest"ment\, n.
1. The act of investing, or the state of being invested.
2. That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
Whose white investments figure innocence. --Shak.
3. (Mil.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging
by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
The capitulation was signed by the commander of the
fort within six days after its investments.
--Marshall.
4. The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of
property; the amount of money invested, or that in which
money is invested.
Before the investment could be made, a change of the
market might render it ineligible. --A. Hamilton.
An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
--Hawthorne.
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