investor
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See also: Investor
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛs.tɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Noun
investor (plural investors)
- A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
- 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
- […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
- 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
- Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
person who invests money in order to make a profit
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Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
investor m anim
Declension
Declension of investor (hard masculine animate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | investor | investoři |
| genitive | investora | investorů |
| dative | investorovi, investoru | investorům |
| accusative | investora | investory |
| vocative | investore | investoři |
| locative | investorovi, investoru | investorech |
| instrumental | investorem | investory |
Further reading
- investor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- investor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
investor (plural investor-investor, first-person possessive investorku, second-person possessive investormu, third-person possessive investornya)
Synonyms
- pelabur (Standard Malay)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “investor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorer, definite plural investorene)
- an investor
Related terms
References
- “investor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorar, definite plural investorane)
- an investor
References
- “investor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Tatar
Noun
investor
- Latin spelling of инвестор (inwestor)
Declension
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declension of investor
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | investor | investor |
| genitive | investor | investor |
| dative | investor | investor |
| accusative | investor | investor |
| locative | investor | investor |
| ablative | investor | investor |