See also: Investor

English

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Etymology

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From invest +‎ -or.

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investor (plural investors)

  1. 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[1], 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."

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Descendants

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  • German: Investor
  • Polish: inwestor
  • Russian: инве́стор (invéstor)

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Czech

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investor m anim

  1. investor

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  • investor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • investor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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investor (plural investor-investor, first-person possessive investorku, second-person possessive investormu, third-person possessive investornya)

  1. investor

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorer, definite plural investorene)

  1. an investor
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorar, definite plural investorane)

  1. an investor

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Tatar

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investor

  1. Latin spelling of инвестор (inwestor)

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