INVESTMENT

Investment

Investment has different meanings in finance and economics. In economics, investment is the accumulation of newly produced physical entities, such as factories, machinery, houses, and goods inventories.

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investment

Noun

  1. The act of investing, or state of being invested.
  2. A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
  3. That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
  4. The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
  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.


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