investment

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Noun

investment (plural investments)

1. A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
2. 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.

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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) Croatian: ulaganje (hr) n., investicija (hr) f., plasman (hr) m. Czech: investice (cs) f. Dutch: investering (nl) Finnish: sijoitus (fi) French: investissement (fr) German: Investition (de) f. Greek: επένδυση (el) f. Hebrew: השקעה (he) (hashkaa) f.

Hungarian: befektetés (hu) Indonesian: investasi (id) 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. Spanish: inversión (es) f. Swahili: uwekezaji (sw) Swedish: investering (sv) Vietnamese: sự đầu tư (vi)