investor

See also: Investor

English

Etymology

invest +‎ -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛstɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛstə(r)

Noun

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, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, 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."

Translations

person who invests money in order to make a profit

• Arabic: مُسْتَثْمِر‎ m (mustaṯmir)
• Bulgarian: инвеститор (investitor)
• Catalan: inversor m, inversionista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投資者 (zh), 投资者 (zh) (tóuzīzhě), 投資家 (zh), 投资家 (zh) (tóuzījiā), 投資人 (zh), 投资人 (zh) (tóuzīrén)

• Czech: investor (cs) m
• Dutch: investeerder (nl) m
• Finnish: sijoittaja (fi)
• French: investisseur (fr)
• German: Investor (de) m, Anleger (de) m
• Greek: επενδυτής (el) m (ependytís)
• Hebrew: משקיע‎ m (mashkia)
• Hindi: विनिधानकर्ता m (vinidhānkartā), निवेशक m (niveśak), निवेशकर्ता m (niveśkartā)
• Hungarian: befektető (hu), beruházó (hu)
• Indonesian: investor (id)
• Irish: fuilleamhóir m, infheisteoir m
• Italian: investitore (it) m

• Japanese: 投資家 (とうしか, tōshika), 出資者 (しゅっししゃ, shusshisha)
• Korean: 투자자 (ko) (tujaja)
• Malay: pelabur
• Maori: kaiwhakangao, kaiwhakangao moni
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: investor m

  Nynorsk: investor m

• Polish: inwestor (pl) m
• Portuguese: investidor (pt) m
• Romanian: investitor (ro) m, investitoare f
• Russian: инве́стор (ru) m (invéstor), вкла́дчик (ru) m (vkládčik)
• Spanish: (Latin America) inversionista m, (Argentina, Spain) inversor m
• Swahili: mwekezaji (sw)
• Swedish: investerare (sv)
• Tagalog: mamumuhunan
• Thai: ผู้ลงทุน (pôo long tun)
• Turkish: yatırımcı (tr)
• Vietnamese: người đầu tư

Anagrams

• viretons

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Czech

Noun

investor m

1. investor

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	investor	investoři
genitive	investora	investorů
dative	investoru, investorovi	investorům
accusative	investora	investory
vocative	investore	investoři
locative	investoru, investorovi	investorech
instrumental	investorem	investory

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. an investor

Related terms

• investere

References

• “investor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. an investor

References

• “investor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English investor.

Noun

investor

1. investor

Declension

    declension of investor

Nominative	investor
Genitive	investornıñ
Dative	investorğa
Accusative	investornı
Locative	investorda
Ablative	investordan

References

• investorlarğa üz proyektların