investment

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Etymology

invest +‎ -ment

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Noun

investment (plural investments)

1. The act of investing, or state of being invested.
2. (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
   • A. Hamilton

     An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.

3. That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
   • Shakespeare

     Whose white investments figure innocence.

4. (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
   • Marshall

     The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments.

5. 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.

Translations

a placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use

• Afrikaans: belegging
• Arabic: استثمار (ar) (istithmaar) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投資 (cmn), 投资 (cmn) (tóuzī)

• Czech: investice (cs) f
• Dutch: investering (nl)
• Finnish: sijoitus (fi)
• French: investissement (fr)
• German: Investition (de) f
• Greek: επένδυση (el) (epéndysi) f
• Hebrew: השקעה (he) (hashkaa) f
• Hungarian: befektetés (hu)
• Icelandic: fjárfesting (is) f

• Indonesian: investasi (id)
• Irish: fuilleamh (ga) m
• Italian: investimento (it) m
• Japanese: 投資 (ja) (とうし, tōshi)
• Korean: 투자 (ko) (tuja) (投資 (ko))
• Lithuanian: investicija (lt) f
• Polish: inwestycja (pl) f
• Russian: инвестиция (ru) (investícija) f, вклад (ru) (vklad) m, капиталовложение (ru) (kapitalovložénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: ulaganje (sh) n, investicija (sh) f, plasman (sh) m
• Spanish: inversión (es) f
• Swahili: uwekezaji (sw)
• Swedish: investering (sv)
• Vietnamese: sự đầu tư (vi)