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English
Etymology
invest + -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛstmənt/, /ɪnˈvɛsmənt/
Noun
investment (countable and uncountable, plural investments)
- The act of investing, or state of being invested.
Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment.
- (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
- Antonym: divestment
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18: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.
- (obsolete) A vestment.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Whose white investments figure innocence.
- (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
1875, John Howard Hinton, History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement:the investment of the fort
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: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.
- 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
Translations
placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use
- Afrikaans: belegging
- Albanian: investim (sq) m
- Arabic: اِسْتِثْمَار m (istiṯmār)
- Armenian: ներդրում (hy) (nerdrum)
- Azerbaijani: yatırım, qoyuluş, kapital qoyuluşu, sərmaya qoyuluşu, investisiya
- Belarusian: інвесты́цыя f (invjestýcyja), інвэсты́цыя f (investýcyja), уклада́нне n (ukladánnje)
- Bulgarian: инвести́ция (bg) f (investícija), вложе́ние (bg) n (vložénie)
- Burmese: အရင်းအနှီး (my) (a.rang:a.hni:)
- Catalan: inversió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 投資/投资 (zh) (tóuzī)
- Czech: investice (cs) f
- Danish: investering c
- Dutch: investering (nl) f
- Esperanto: investado
- Estonian: investeering
- Finnish: sijoitus (fi)
- French: investissement (fr) m
- Galician: investimento (gl) m
- Georgian: შენატანი (šenaṭani), ინვესტიცია (invesṭicia)
- German: Investition (de) f, Anlage (de) f
- Greek: επένδυση (el) f (epéndysi)
- Hebrew: הַשְׁקָעָה (he) f (hashka'á)
- Hindi: निवेश (hi) m (niveś), विनिधान m (vinidhān)
- Hungarian: befektetés (hu)
- Icelandic: fjárfesting f
- Indonesian: investasi (id)
- Irish: fuilleamh m
- Italian: investimento (it) m
- Japanese: 投資 (ja) (とうし, tōshi)
- Kazakh: инвестиция (investisiä)
- Khmer: វិនិយោគ (viniyook)
- Korean: 투자(投資) (ko) (tuja)
- Kyrgyz: инвестиция (investitsiya), жатырым (jatırım)
- Lao: ການລົງທຶນ (lo) (kān long thưn)
- Latin: collocātiō f
- Latvian: investīcija f
- Lithuanian: investicija f
- Macedonian: инвестиција f (investicija)
- Malay: pelaburan, investasi, laburan
- Maori: whakangaonga, haumitanga
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хөрөнгө оруулалт (xöröngö oruulalt)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠷᠦᠩᠭᠡ
ᠣᠷᠤᠭᠤᠯᠤᠯᠲᠠ (körüŋge oruɣululta)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: investering m or f
- Nynorsk: investering f
- Pashto: پانګونه f (pāngawǝna)
- Persian: سرمایهگذاری (sarmâye-gozâri)
- Polish: inwestycja (pl) f
- Portuguese: investimento (pt) m, investimentos m pl, aposta (pt) f
- Romanian: investiție (ro) f
- Russian: инвести́ция (ru) f (investícija), вклад (ru) m (vklad), вложе́ние (ru) n (vložénije), капиталовложе́ние (ru) n (kapitalovložénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: инвести́ција f, улагање n, пла̀сма̄н m
- Roman: investícija (sh) f, ulaganje (sh) n, plàsmān (sh) m
- Slovak: investícia f
- Slovene: vlaganje n, investicija f
- Spanish: inversión (es) f
- Swahili: uwekezaji (sw)
- Swedish: investering (sv) c
- Tagalog: pamumuhunan
- Tajik: сармоягузорӣ (tg) (sarmoyaguzorī), пулгузорӣ (pulguzorī), инвеститсия (investitsiya)
- Telugu: పెట్టుబడి (te) (peṭṭubaḍi)
- Thai: การลงทุน (th) (gaan-long-tun)
- Turkish: yatırım (tr), envestisman (tr)
- Turkmen: inwestisiýa
- Ukrainian: інвести́ція (uk) f (investýcija), вне́сок (uk) m (vnésok), капіталовкла́дення n (kapitalovkládennja)
- Urdu: سَرْمایَہ کاری (sarmāya kārī)
- Uzbek: investitsiya (uz), sarmoya kiritish
- Vietnamese: sự đầu tư (vi)
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mixture of silica sand and plaster
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 熔模 (róngmó)
- Finnish: keerna (fi)
- Spanish: please add this translation if you can
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