investment

English

Etymology

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invest +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛstmənt/, /ɪnˈvɛsmənt/

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Noun

investment (countable and uncountable, 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 or appreciation.

   Antonym: divestment

   • (Can we date this quote by A. Hamilton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

3. (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Marshall and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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

act of investing

• Bulgarian: инвестиране (bg) n (investirane)
• Catalan: inversió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投入 (zh) (tóurù), 投資／投资 (zh) (tóuzī), 投资 (zh) (tóuzī)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
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• Finnish: sijoittaminen (fi)
• Hindi: निवेश (hi) m (niveś), विनिधान m (vinidhān)
• Maori: whakangaonga, whakangaonga moni
• Portuguese: investimento (pt)
• Spanish: inversión (es) f

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

• Afrikaans: belegging
• Arabic: اِسْتِثْمَار m (istiṯmār)
• Armenian: ներդրում (hy) (nerdrum)
• Bulgarian: вложение (bg) n (vloženie), инвестиция (bg) f (investicija)
• Catalan: inversió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投資／投资 (zh) (tóuzī), 投资 (zh) (tóuzī)

• Czech: investice (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: investering (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sijoitus (fi)
• French: investissement (fr)
• Galician: investimento (gl) m
• Georgian: შენატანი (šenaṭani), ინვესტიცია (invesṭicia)
• German: Investition (de) f
• Greek: επένδυση (el) f (epéndysi)
• Hebrew: השקעה (he) f (hashkaa)
• Hindi: निवेश (hi) m (niveś), विनिधान m (vinidhān)
• Hungarian: befektetés (hu)
• Icelandic: fjárfesting f
• Indonesian: investasi (id)
• Irish: fuilleamh m
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• Italian: investimento (it) m
• Japanese: 投資 (ja) (とうし, tōshi)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 투자 (ko) (tuja) (投資 (ko))
• Latin: collocātiō f
• Lithuanian: investicija f
• Malay: pelaburan
• Maori: whakangaonga, haumitanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: investering m or f

  Nynorsk: investering f

• Polish: inwestycja (pl) f
• Portuguese: investimento (pt) m, investimentos m pl, aposta (pt) f
• Russian: инвести́ция (ru) f (investícija), вклад (ru) m (vklad), капиталовложе́ние (ru) n (kapitalovložénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: ulaganje (sh) n, investicija (sh) f, plasman (sh) m
• Spanish: inversión (es) f
• Swahili: uwekezaji (sw)
• Swedish: investering (sv)
• Tagalog: pamumuhunan
• Thai: การลงทุน (gaan-long-tun)
• Ukrainian: інвести́ція (uk) (investýcija), вне́сок (uk) (vnésok)
• Vietnamese: sự đầu tư

vestment — see vestment

act of surrounding

• Bulgarian: обсада (bg) f (obsada)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包圍／包围 (zh) (bāowéi), 包围 (zh) (bāowéi), 封鎖／封锁 (zh) (fēngsuǒ), 封锁 (zh) (fēngsuǒ)

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• Finnish: piiritys (fi)
• Spanish: cerco (es) m

mixture of silica sand and plaster

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熔模 (róngmó)

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• Finnish: keerna (fi)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

References

• “investment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “investment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.