investor

See also: Investor

English

Etymology

From invest +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛs.tɚ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈves.tə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

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, “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."

   • 2021 October 27, Jeanne Sahadi, “How stablecoin is different than other cryptocurrencies … and how it’s not”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     So investors buy stablecoins not to make a profit but instead as a place to store money within the cryptocurrency infrastructure and to use when buying and selling other crypto assets. […] For example, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission asserted that for nearly four years Tether did not fully back its stablecoin with US dollars, meaning it did not have enough US dollars on hand to pay back every investor who potentially might cash out their Tether stablecoins.

Derived terms

• activist investor
• angel investor
• coinvestor
• investomer
• investorism
• investorship
• noninvestor
• overinvestor
• passive investor
• small investor
• underinvestor

Descendants

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

Translations

person who invests money in order to make a profit

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• Arabic: مُسْتَثْمِر m (mustaṯmir)
• Armenian: ներդրող (hy) (nerdroġ)
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• Azerbaijani: investor
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• Belarusian: інве́стар m (invjéstar), інве́старка f (invjéstarka), інвэ́стар m (invéstar), інвэ́старка f (invéstarka), укла́дчык m (ukládčyk), укла́дчыца f (ukládčyca)
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• Bulgarian: инвести́тор m (investítor), инвести́торка f (investítorka), вложи́тел m (vložítel), вложи́телка f (vložítelka)
• Catalan: inversor m, inversionista m or f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: investor (cs) m, investorka f
• Danish: investor c
• Dutch: investeerder (nl) m, belegger (nl) m
• Estonian: investor (et)
• Faroese: íleggjari m
• Finnish: sijoittaja (fi)
• French: investisseur (fr), investisseuse (fr) f
• Georgian: ინვესტორი (invesṭori)
• German: Anleger (de) m, Anlegerin (de) f, Investor (de) m, Investorin (de) f
• Greek: επενδυτής (el) m (ependytís)

  Ancient Greek: ἐπενδύτης m (ependútēs)

• Hebrew: מַשְׁקִיעַ m (mashkiya)
• 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, investitrice (it) f
• Japanese: 投資家 (ja) (とうしか, tōshika), 出資者 (しゅっししゃ, shusshisha)
• Kazakh: инвестор (investor)
• Khmer: អ្នកធ្វើវិនិយោគ (nĕək thvəə viniyook)
• Korean: 투자자(投資者) (ko) (tujaja)
• Kyrgyz: инвестор (ky) (investor)
• Lao: ນັກລົງທຶນ (nak long thưn)
• Latvian: investors m
• Lithuanian: investitorius m, investuotojas m
• Macedonian: инвести́тор m (investítor), инвести́торка f (investítorka)
• Malay: pelabur
• Malayalam: നിക്ഷേപകൻ (ml) m (nikṣēpakaṉ)
• Maori: kaiwhakangao, kaiwhakangao moni
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: оруулагч (oruulagč), хөрөнгө оруулагч (xöröngö oruulagč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: investor m

  Nynorsk: investor m

• Persian: سرمایه‌گذار (sarmâye-gozâr)
• Polish: inwestor (pl) m, inwestorka f
• Portuguese: investidor (pt) m
• Romanian: investitor (ro) m, investitoare f
• Russian: инве́стор (ru) m (invéstor) (male or female), вкла́дчик (ru) m (vkládčik), вкла́дчица (ru) f (vkládčica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ула̀га̄ч m, инвѐстӣтор m

  Roman: ulàgāč (sh) m, invèstītor (sh) m

• Slovak: investor m, investorka f
• Slovene: investitor m, investitorica f
• Spanish: (Latin America) inversionista m, (Argentina, Spain) inversor m
• Swahili: mwekezaji (sw)
• Swedish: investerare (sv) c
• Tagalog: mamumuhunan
• Tajik: сармоягузор (tg) (sarmoyaguzor), инвестор (investor)
• Thai: ผู้ลงทุน (pûu-long-tun)
• Turkish: yatırımcı (tr), sermayedar (tr)
• Ukrainian: інве́стор (uk) m (invéstor), інве́сторка f (invéstorka), вкла́дник m (vkládnyk), вкла́дниця f (vkládnycja)
• Urdu: سَرْمایَہ کار m (sarmāyā-kār)
• Uzbek: investor (uz), sarmoyador (uz), sarmoya kirituvchi, omonatchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: người đầu tư (vi)
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• Welsh: buddsoddwr m
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• Zazaki: sermayedar (diq)
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Anagrams

• viretons

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪnvɛstor]

Noun

investor m anim

1. investor

Declension

Declension of investor (hard masculine animate)

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

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English investor.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /inˈvestor/ [inˈfes.t̪ɔr]
• Rhymes: -estor
• Syllabification: in‧ves‧tor

Noun

investor (plural investor-investor)

1. investor

   Synonym: penanam modal

Derived terms

• investor aktif
• investor besar
• investor kecil
• investor pasif
• investor publik
• investor tidak langsung

Related terms

• investasi

Further reading

• “investor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. an investor

References

• “investor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Tatar

Noun

investor

1. Latin spelling of инвестор (inwestor)

Declension

    declension of investor

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