investor

See also: Investor

English

Etymology

invest +‎ -or

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛstə(r), Rhymes: -ɛstɔː(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, “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)
• 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)
• Hungarian: befektető (hu), beruházó (hu)
• Indonesian: investor (id)
• Irish: fuilleamhóir 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)

• Maori: kaiwhakangao
• 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 of investor

	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

Borrowing 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