investment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɛstmənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɛsmənt/
Forms: form: investments
Etymology: From invest + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment.
glosses: The act of investing, or state of being invested.
examples: text: An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
topics: business
finance
antonyms: divestment
glosses: A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
examples: text: Whose white investments figure innocence.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: A vestment.
examples: text: the investment of the fort
ref: 1875, John Howard Hinton, History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement:
text: In 1858, the Governor of Kuangsi applied for his services, but the Viceroy Tsêng Kuo-fan, under whom he had served for a number of years and who recognised his value, declined to part with him. In 1860 he assisted in the defeat of the rebel reinforcements at the Hsiao-ch‘ih post station and took part in the capture of Taihu, investment of An-ch‘ing and destruction of the rebel camp at Linghu. For his services in the capture of Anch‘ing he was rewarded with the title of Baturu and placed on the list of Brigade Generals. He was next sent to Chihchow in Anhui to make reconnaissances of the country and occupy the commanding situations.
ref: 1890 May 16 [1890 April 17], “Honours to a Deceased Military Officer.”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XLIV, number 1189, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 594, column 3:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
glosses: A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.
Derived terms: alternative investment
alternative investment fund
angel investment
capital investment
coinvestment
collective investment scheme
counterinvestment
emergy investment ratio
ethical investment
foreign direct investment
foreign investment
investment bank
investment banker
investment banking
investment casting
investment company
investment consultant
investment dressing
investment firm
investment fund
investment letter
investment strategy
malinvestment
misinvestment
noninvestment
overinvestment
private investment banker
reinvestment
return on investment
subinvestment
term investment
underinvestment
uninvestment
wasting investment