investment

See also: Investment

English

Etymology

invest +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

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

investment (countable and uncountable, plural investments)

The act of investing, or state of being invested.
Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment.
(finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
Antonym: divestment
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
  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.
(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 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
  Whose white investments figure innocence.
(military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
- 1875, John Howard Hinton, History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement
  the investment of the fort
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.

Derived terms

malinvestment
misinvestment

Translations

act of investing

Bulgarian: инвести́ране (bg) n (investírane)
Catalan: inversió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 投入 (zh) (tóurù), 投資／投资 (zh) (tóuzī)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: sijoittaminen (fi)
Hindi: निवेश (hi) m (niveś), विनिधान m (vinidhān)
Maori: whakangaonga, whakangaonga moni
Portuguese: investimento (pt) m
Russian: инвести́рование (ru) n (investírovanije)
Spanish: inversión (es) f

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

Afrikaans: belegging
Albanian: investim (sq) m
Arabic: اِسْتِثْمَار‎ m (istiṯmār)
Armenian: ներդրում (hy) (nerdrum)
Azerbaijani: yatırım, qoyuluş, kapital qoyuluşu, sərmaya qoyuluşu, investisiya
Belarusian: інвесты́цыя f (invjestýcyja), інвэсты́цыя f (investýcyja), уклада́нне n (ukladánnje)
Bulgarian: инвести́ция (bg) f (investícija), вложе́ние (bg) n (vložénie)
Burmese: အရင်းအနှီး (my) (a.rang:a.hni:)
Catalan: inversió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 投資／投资 (zh) (tóuzī)
Czech: investice (cs) f
Danish: investering c
Dutch: investering (nl) f
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: investeering
Finnish: sijoitus (fi)
French: investissement (fr) m
Galician: investimento (gl) m
Georgian: შენატანი (šenaṭani), ინვესტიცია (invesṭicia)
German: Investition (de) f, Anlage (de) f
Greek: επένδυση (el) f (epéndysi)
Hebrew: הַשְׁקָעָה‎ (he) f (hashka'á)
Hindi: निवेश (hi) m (niveś), विनिधान m (vinidhān)
Hungarian: befektetés (hu)
Icelandic: fjárfesting f
Indonesian: investasi (id)
Irish: fuilleamh m
Italian: investimento (it) m
Japanese: 投資 (ja) (とうし, tōshi)
Kazakh: инвестиция (investisiä)
Khmer: វិនិយោគ (viniyook)
Korean: 투자(投資) (ko) (tuja)
Kyrgyz: инвестиция (investitsiya), жатырым (jatırım)
Lao: ການລົງທຶນ (lo) (kān long thưn)
Latin: collocātiō f
Latvian: investīcija f
Lithuanian: investicija f
Macedonian: инвестиција f (investicija)
Malay: pelaburan, investasi, laburan
Maori: whakangaonga, haumitanga
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хөрөнгө оруулалт (xöröngö oruulalt)
Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠷᠦᠩᠭᠡ
ᠣᠷᠤᠭᠤᠯᠤᠯᠲᠠ (körüŋge oruɣululta)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: investering m or f
Nynorsk: investering f
Pashto: پانګونه‎ f (pāngawǝna)
Persian: سرمایه‌گذاری‎ (sarmâye-gozâri)
Polish: inwestycja (pl) f
Portuguese: investimento (pt) m, investimentos m pl, aposta (pt) f
Romanian: investiție (ro) f
Russian: инвести́ция (ru) f (investícija), вклад (ru) m (vklad), вложе́ние (ru) n (vložénije), капиталовложе́ние (ru) n (kapitalovložénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: инвести́ција f, улагање n, пла̀сма̄н m
Roman: investícija (sh) f, ulaganje (sh) n, plàsmān (sh) m
Slovak: investícia f
Slovene: vlaganje n, investicija f
Spanish: inversión (es) f
Swahili: uwekezaji (sw)
Swedish: investering (sv) c
Tagalog: pamumuhunan
Tajik: сармоягузорӣ (tg) (sarmoyaguzorī), пулгузорӣ (pulguzorī), инвеститсия (investitsiya)
Telugu: పెట్టుబడి (te) (peṭṭubaḍi)
Thai: การลงทุน (th) (gaan-long-tun)
Turkish: yatırım (tr), envestisman (tr)
Turkmen: inwestisiýa
Ukrainian: інвести́ція (uk) f (investýcija), вне́сок (uk) m (vnésok), капіталовкла́дення n (kapitalovkládennja)
Urdu: سَرْمایَہ کاری‎ (sarmāya kārī)
Uzbek: investitsiya (uz), sarmoya kiritish
Vietnamese: sự đầu tư (vi)

vestment — see vestment

act of surrounding

Bulgarian: обсада (bg) f (obsada)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 包圍／包围 (zh) (bāowéi), 封鎖／封锁 (zh) (fēngsuǒ)
Finnish: piiritys (fi)
Spanish: cerco (es) m

mixture of silica sand and plaster

Chinese:
Mandarin: 熔模 (róngmó)
Finnish: keerna (fi)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

References

investment at OneLook Dictionary Search
investment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911