investmentn.
/ɪnˈvɛs(t)m(ə)nt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvɛs(t)m(ə)nt/ I. Senses related to clothing, surrounding, installing, and endowing.
1. † a. In plural. Clothes, garb, attire; spec. ceremonial robes or vestments. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun]
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 45 You (lord Archbishop)..Whose white inuestments figure innocence. View more context for this quotation
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 128 His vowes..they are brokers Not of that die which their inuestments showe But meere imploratotors [sic] of vnholy suites.
1809 Universal Mag. Dec. 451/2 Should I injure my habit..the purchase of new investments would become necessary.
1854 M. J. Routh in J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men (1888) I. 101 No persons would spend their time in a leisurely disposal of the investments, after having taken them from the body.
b. The fact or state of being clothed in certain clothes or vestments; the action of clothing someone in clothes or vestments. Also figurative.Quot. 1798 could alternatively be interpreted as showing sense 2b.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun]
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1627 J. Mayer Ecclesiastica Interpretatio (Rev.) vii. 324 A way to future glory, and the inuestment with white robes washed in the Bloud of the Lambe.
1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit. (ed. 5) p. xxxi I now present myself..clothed in the robes of their hereditary priesthood... But if, unworthy of this hallowed investment and interior ministry, the door of the sanctuary is closed upon me; I shall [etc.].
1895 Trans. St. Paul's Ecclesiol. Soc. 3 158 The investment with some special kind of head-dress was a recognised part of the ceremonial of Episcopal Consecration.
1951 J. Wach Types of Relig. Experience v. 99 Upon achieving detachment from ‘heedlessness and selfishness,’ he is ready for investment with ‘the garment of piety’.
2007 L. Jones Between Islam & Byzantium ii. 15 Each of these ceremonies featured investment with robes.
2.
a. The action of granting someone, or the fact of being granted, a domain, right, authority, etc.; (Law) the formal granting of tenure of a property or fief; = investiture n. 3b. Now historical.In quot. 1610 in extended use.
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1610 W. Cowper Defiance to Death 128 The Lord our God by his Stewards & seruants..deliuering to vs in the Sacrament the Symbols of the body and blood of Christ Iesus hath thereby seazed vs, and giuen vs inuestment of our heauenly Kingdome.
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 123 Count Armignac proffered his daughter for wife to Henry, together with all the places which hee or his predecessors..by gift, and investment from the Kings of France had possessed in Gascony.
1745 Suppl. to Reply in Vindic. Kindred Mr. T. ii. 23 No Right of Action, none even of Property, unless attended with Possession or Investment, can be transferr'd.
1778 G. Stuart View Society in Europe ii. ii. 91 The adorning with arms and the blow of the sword, made the act of the creation of the antient knight; the new knight was constituted by an investment in a piece of land.
1846 R. T. Hampson Origines Patriciæ xi. 368 The use of the banner at investment with a fief.
1892 J. H. Wigmore Materials for Study Private Law Old Japan: Pt. I ii. iv. 93 Promotion to such an office could be accompanied by investment with a fief.
1973 R. Vaughan Charles the Bold iv. 148 Guillaume Hugonet..made..specific demands on his duke's behalf: investment of the duke of Burgundy with the duchy of Savoy,..and investment with the duchy of Guelders.
2016 D. Brown H. de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster iv. 92 Hugh de Lacy, whose grievance with the crown first manifested in the months immediately following his investment with the earldom of Ulster.
b. The action of investing someone, or the fact of being invested, with an office, rank, honour, etc.; a formal or ceremonial installation or induction, esp. one in which the person being installed is dressed in or presented with official robes, attire, or insignia; = investiture n. 3a.Regarding the investment of bishops, see also investiture n. 1.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > formal or ceremonial appointment
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1612 B. Rich Catholicke Conf. f. 4 But doe you call him a reuerend and a learned Byshop... It is truth, he had his inuestment by the Pope.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 112 The Bassawes..would have..prevented the said Kings investment, an Inauguration unto the Kingdom of Hungary.
1788 J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth I. Pref. p. xxx The investment of the King of Denmark with the order of the Garter.
1796 G. L. Way tr. P. J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy Fabliaux I. 251 At the creation of a knight, the king or prince who conferred the order, generally buckled on the spurs with his own hands: and..this was the first ceremony of investment.
1833 Christian Examiner & Church of Ireland Mag. Dec. 865 He was, by the investment and consecration by the Church, put in possession of spiritual jurisdiction.
1880 Hampshire Advertiser 18 Dec. 3/2 Bro. Jacob was unanimously elected treasurer before the ceremony of investment.
1904 H. G. Turner Hist. Colony Victoria I. v. 110 The ceremonial investment of Batman with the ‘royal mantles’ of two chiefs [had] to be performed.
1954 Washington Post 13 June b3/1 The investment, when the Queen will once more present the Prime Minister with the insignia [of the Order of the Garter].
2002 K. Blei Freedom of Relig. & Belief v. 42 Both secular and Church authorities would be involved in the rite of investment of bishops.
3. The endowment of someone or something with an attribute, quality, power, etc.; the endowment of an attribute, quality, power, etc., in or into someone or something; = investiture n. 4.
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the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > endowing with something
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1624 G. Williams Seuen Goulden Candlestickes iii. v. 387 This proueth not any mutation to bee in the body of Christ, nor any inuestment of the same, with Diuine properties.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xviii. 166 The investment of that lustre, Majesty, and honour, which for the public good,..redounds from a whole Nation into one person.
1712 J. Woodward Civil Rulers 22 Who besides their Investment with Authority, are cloathed with the ravishing Robes of Righteousness.
1788 P. Hutchison Three Disc. 55 The name Christ, ascribed to him, implies his investment with his mediatorial character.
1833 Polit. Reg. (Washington) 28 Jan. 377/2 An investment of authority in the President to exercise constitutional power.
1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams i. iv. 61 The investment of the powers of nature with personal life and consciousness.
1962 H. D. Duncan Communication & Social Order iii. viii. 112 All such expression, like prayer, is..an investment of the self with confidence and strength.
1986 J. T. Leerssen Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael iii. 140 The general investment of noble motives and sentiments in Irish characters.
2011 J. W. Robbins Radical Democracy & Polit. Theol. 63 Others go further by claiming a fatal flaw within democracy's investment of power in the people.
4. Chiefly Biology. A layer or covering on an outer surface, esp. of the body or part of the body of an organism. Occasionally also: an inner layer or lining.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > outer covering
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > enfolding or enveloping > that which or one who
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiv. 140 All Quadrupeds oviparous..are without any haire, and have no covering part or hairy investment at all. View more context for this quotation
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. iii. 163 The Aranea Tunica (the proper investment of the Chrystalline).
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 298 Some assert that these are only investments of other crystallized stones that have since decayed.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 27 Their capsules afford a striking instance of an investment acquired simply by a condensation of the surrounding cellular structure.
1841 J. Phillips Figures & Descr. Palæozoic Fossils Cornwall 157 The oxide of iron, to which the tint is generally owing, is a mere investment, a thin film which has been added by some accretionary process.
1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects iv. 67 The hard and horny dermal investment of insects.
1878 Proc. Royal Soc. 1877 26 330 In all probability these spaces are lined merely with a delicate endothelial investment.
1922 L. H. Hyman Lab. Man. Compar. Vertebr. Anat. v. 49 In some sturgeons (Scaphirhynchus) the ganoid scales form a complete investment for the tail.
1941 V. J. Chapman Introd. Study Algae 6 The protoplast is surrounded by an inner investment which has been shown to be modified plasmatic membrane.
1986 J. L. Hedrick Molecular & Cellular Biol. Fertilization 240 It is necessary to orient one to the structure of the white sturgeon egg and its investments.
2009 D. Das & T. C. Nag in S. N. Gorb Functional Surfaces in Biol. II. 110 The dermal tissue often penetrates the large tubercles..and mimics the dermal investment found inside the pulp cavity of mammalian teeth.
5. Military. The surrounding of a town, stronghold, etc., by a hostile force so as to cut off outside communication and aid; (also) an instance of this. Also attributive, esp. in investment line. Now historical.In quot. 1702 in figurative context.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun]
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1702 Prerogative of Breeches 2 The Fortress of Pretence and Hypocrisy, whose outworks are so soft and Silken that they court an Investment.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Leaguer, siege; investment of a town.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VII. 214 You will likewise have heard of the surrender of Olivença, and of the subsequent investment of Badajoz.
1854 Ld. Raglan Let. 8 Oct. in J. Martineau Life H. Pelham (1908) vii. 163 To draw the investment closer.
1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 17 Some distance in rear of the investment line.
1914 Sci. Amer. 3 Oct. 286/2 The Germans, in our belief, never contemplated for a moment, a complete investment of Paris.
1963 Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 56 248 These siege guns were emplaced along the investment line.
2013 N. Murray Rocky Road to Great War ii. 54 The investment [of Plevna] was a slow process as the Russian Army whittled down and cut Osman Pasha's lines of communication.
6. Heat-resistant material that is used to embed or surround an object and is then allowed to harden, typically so that a mould can be made from it.In dentistry, investments are commonly used to make crowns.
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > materials
porcelain1845
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pack1923
1860 Vulcanite May 21 Take plaster and asbestos, equal parts, mix with water, and invest the body and teeth, being careful not to allow any of the investment to come in contact with the plaster model.
1892 C. Hunter Man. Dental Lab. viii. 115 If the new tooth must be soldered, an hour-and-a-half, from the time the case is ready to be put in the investment, is not too much for its safe accomplishment.
1942 Iron Age 9 July 39 Production of castings..by a modern modification of the lost-wax process is described herein. This method utilizes a refractory investment which makes possible the casting of stainless and other alloy steels.
2009 Guardian 12 Mar. (Technology section) 5/2 Knock away the investment, remove the sprue, and there's the basis, or ‘coping’, for your crown.
II. Senses relating to the investing of money or capital.
7. The use of money, esp. revenue from trading, to purchase goods for further trade; an instance of this. Also: an amount of money being employed in this way; a parcel of goods thus purchased. Now historical.Originally and chiefly designating the English East India Company's use of its revenue to purchase goods for export back to Britain. Cf. invest v. 7.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > in East India trade
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1615 E. Holmden Let. to Governor E. India Company 7 Mar. (BL: IOR/E/3/2/262) f. 249v For further aduyse in particulerising of the sayls of the Companies goods and Investment of that and of ther monies.
1618 T. Roe Let. 14 Feb. in Embassy to Court Great Mogul (1899) II. 473 Not to defer investmentes till our shippes arriuall and the Indicoes swept away.
1698 C. Davenant Disc. Publick Revenues ii. iv. 345 If the prime Cost of the respective Investments or Parcels of Goods, were truly valued and stated by judicious and disinterested Persons, a Judgment might from thence be made somewhat nearer the Truth.
1720 H. Elking Interest Eng. Consider'd 13 Those young Gentlemen..may induce them [sc. Merchants] for some time to continue their Investments in Cloth, &c. but if this Discouragement remain..they will..chuse rather to employ their Money at home.
1783 E. Burke in 9th Rep. Select Comm. Admin. Justice Bengal, Bahar & Orissa ii. 14 A certain Portion of the Revenues of Bengal has been..set apart, to be employed in the Purchase of Goods for Exportation to England, and this is called The Investment.
1791 W. Robertson Hist. Disquis. Knowl. Ancients India iv. 151 To these staples, the natives of all the different regions in the eastern parts of Asia brought the commodities which were the growth of their several countries..and with them the ships from Tyre and from Egypt completed their investments.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ix. 521 To sell and buy various articles, including pepper, which it was his business to provide for the Company's investments.
1962 B. K. Gupta Sirajuddaullah & E. India Company i. 15 The decline of the Company's investments, in the period 1753-56, was greater in Bengal than elsewhere in India.
2007 Mod. Asian Stud. 41 342 The English Brokers in Bengal..played a crucial role in handling the Company's investments.
8. Finance.
a. The use of money or capital to purchase an asset or assets (such as property, stocks, bonds, etc.), in the expectation of earning income or profit over time.Investment is distinguished from speculation, in which the object is to reap a quick reward from a sudden rise in the market price of an asset; cf. speculation n. 8a.business investment, capital investment, portfolio investment, etc.: see the first element.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment
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1774 P. Francis in tr. I. de Pinto Ess. Circulation & Credit ii. 84 The continued expectation of the committee's investment would keep up the price of stocks, as it would take place by degrees.
1793 A. Hamilton in Papers (1969) XIV. 41 A valuable profit will arise from the investment of the sums on hand, either in a payment to the Bank, or in the purchase of Stock.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. xiii. 383 Any feeling of insecurity is a most formidable obstacle to the investment of capital.
1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen 203 An inducement for the investment of capital in the land.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. vi. 54 When the profitable investment of saving is discouraged or diminished, capital is less eagerly accumulated.
1910 J. London Burning Daylight ii. v. 155 Legitimate investment had no place in Daylight's play... It was the gambling side of business that fascinated him.
1967 Economist 7 Jan. 29/2 There has been heavy investment in refrigerated rail cars bought from Hungary and Poland.
2015 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Sept. a9/6 The Bank of England would finance investment in new homes and large-scale infrastructure projects.
b. An act or instance of investing money or capital in property, stocks, bonds, etc.; an amount of money so invested. Also: a (form or type of) property, stock, bond, etc., in which money or capital has been or may be invested.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > property in which money may be invested
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > money invested
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1785 T. Mortimer tr. J. Necker Treat. Admin. Finances of France II. iv. 135 Part of these sums were frequently balanced by new investments made by foreigners in the public funds.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 45 A friend..made some inquiries about investments in the region where his host lived..‘I do not put myself in the way of hearing about profitable investments’.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 502 So popular was the new investment that on the day on which the books were opened three hundred thousand pounds were subscribed.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. i. 20 Mrs. Villiers..sold out of all the investments which she had.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt iv. 47 He desired nothing more than complete safety in his investments..and the thirty or forty per cent. profit which, according to all authorities, a pioneer deserves for his risks and foresight.
1961 Changing Times Oct. 48/2 Second mortgages are good investments because they combine high yield with safety of principal.
1992 Kiplinger's Personal Finance Mag. Aug. 41/1 In the next year, your investment grows from $950 to $1,100.
2016 D. Loesch Flyover Nation x. 204 Reid's investments no doubt helped him purchase a home in Washington.
9.
a. The spending of money or capital on an activity, project, etc., which is expected to prove useful or beneficial, esp. to oneself or society, without yielding a financial return; an instance of this. Also: an amount of money spent on such an activity, project, etc.
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1807 J. Marshall in Enquirer (Richmond, Va.) 19 Sept. 1/4 If that money was advanced to an accomplice, its investment in means for the [military] expedition is the act of the accomplice.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. iv. 49 To the sea-side they went, after much discussion; and..Beth..was much better, while Mrs. March declared she felt ten years younger; so Jo was satisfied with the investment of her prize-money.
1901 Zion's Herald 17 July 920/2 We believe emphatically that a large investment in education for the Filipinos is good.
1969 L. G. Hines in J. G. Nelson & R. C. Scace Canad. National Parks I. iii. 363 (title) The benefits of public investment in national parks.
1999 Backpacker Sept. 74/1 Technical trail pants are worth the investment. For comfort, breathability, durability, and sheer ease of use, they beat the pants off a shorts-and-tights combination.
2011 Times 30 July (Mag.) 28/1 Boris [Johnson] is here today to announce a multi-million-pound investment in grassroot sports as part of the Olympic legacy.
b. An item or product regarded as a good, worthwhile, etc., purchase, considered in relation to how useful, beneficial, or cost-effective it may prove to be.
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1897 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 11 July 5/1 The best investment for comfort and economy in housekeeping during the hot season is a first-class refrigerator.
1950 Motor Boating June 90 The Oil Changer is an investment in convenience and motor safety for the boat owner.
1991 T. Hilton & M. Messenger Great Ormond St. Bk. Baby & Child Care ii. 74 A good quality nappy bag which converts to a changing mat is also a very good investment.
2004 Nat. Health Nov. 74/1 An air filter with an activated charcoal filter to ‘scrub’ the air clean in your home and remove allergens may be a worthwhile investment.
10. The devotion of time, effort, etc., for a particular purpose, with the expectation of a worthwhile or beneficial result; an instance of this. Also: a purpose or activity to which time, effort, etc., may be usefully or advantageously devoted.
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1840 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. June 504 The mind is capable of enlargement in every one of its glorious attributes..; and, in the process of that enlargement, imparts to its possessor a thousandfold return for his investment of time and labor to procure it.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton i, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 9 A snowy cravat..is a serious investment of labour in the hemming, starching, and ironing departments.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxvi. 342 He discovered a good investment for his skill, sagacity, and endurance in Poland.
1906 Philistine Aug. 82 Exercise is an investment—you expend the energy only that you may get back more energy.
1971 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 33 718/1 As family size becomes smaller, more emotional investment in each child will make the possibility of loss that much more terrible for parents.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 1 Sept. ii. 3/1 Eugene O'Neill's wrenching drama requires an investment of 3 hours, 45 minutes.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in senses 7, 8), as investment company, investment firm, investment opportunity, investment strategy, etc.
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1784 Rep. Select Comm. E. India Company (House of Commons) 5 The last Investment Loan for £. 562,500..was settled.
1828 Morning Chron. 15 Nov. The money had been paid into the Investment Office.
1895 Daily News 21 Mar. 5/3 Regret is expressed that the special investment business of some of these savings banks is practically suspended.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 July 6/1 A lot of investment money seeking employment.
1933 B. Ellinger This Money Business iv. 33 There are a number of firms and brokers connected with trust and investment companies.
1935 Economist 5 Jan. 23/1 The extent of the..movement may be appreciated from the following table of representative values and yields based on the Actuaries' Investment Index.
1969 Financial Times 31 May 3/8 Even the professionals have human failings and usually base their investment strategy on bullish opinions.
1995 B. R. Barber Jihad vs. McWorld (1996) xvii. 248 The new capitalism, where pyramid schemes pass as investment opportunities.
2011 Daily Star (Lebanon) (Nexis) 6 Apr. A raft of investment firms have been facing financial stress.
C2. General attributive (in sense 6), as investment casting, investment material, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > founding or casting > types of
iron founding1793
bronze founding1869
chill-casting1879
die-casting1911
core-casting1928
slush casting1930
sand casting1939
gravity die-casting1940
investment casting1946
slipforming1968
pressure casting1973
1896 Welch's Monthly 1 102 The porcelain which is usually farthest away [from the heat] and protected by an investment material receives it in equal proportion simultaneously with the metal.
1946 Foundry Aug. 85/1 The phrase investment casting is the most suitable for use in defining the lost wax investment casting process.
1963 C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns, & Bridges ii. 3 Modern inlay waxes and investment techniques make dimensional control possible.
1982 O. Untracht Jewelry Concepts & Technol. 403/1 The normal use of refractory investment plaster is in making molds used in lost wax casting.
2012 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. (Late ed.) (Metropolitan section) 3/2 The Modern Art Foundry still employs an ancient technique known as solid investment casting for its large-scale work.
C3. Compounds relating to financial investment; cf. sense 8.
investment adviser n. a person or company employed to provide advice on financial investments.In quot. 1853: a journal or newspaper offering such advice.
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1853 Times 1 Oct. 3/5 (advt.) Journal of auctions and sales and investment adviser..contains every kind of information relating to property and investment, sales by auction, houses and estates to let.
1875 Week's News 31 July 963/1 One set of investment advisers say—‘Buy Anglo-American’.
1940 Accounting Rev. 15 448/1 At least 40% of the board of directors must be independent—that is, no more than 60% may be investment advisers to the company or affiliated persons, or officers or employees of the company.
2000 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 Nov. 81 Investment adviser Chase de Vere is to pull over GBP 20m of business away from CGU's PPT Monthly Income Plus fund.
investment analysis n. the action or practice of researching and evaluating financial investments in order to determine profitability and risk; an instance of this.
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1912 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 15/1 The schedule of courses..includes..fundamental business conditions, investment analysis, and commercial law.
1991 Business Week 18 Nov. 156/1 (advt.) The first compact disc combining financial full-text company reports for investment analysis.
2003 H. Campbell & R. Brown Benefit-Cost Anal. iv. 62 It is to be expected that the private enterprise would already have undertaken a private investment analysis of the project.
investment analyst n. a person or company employed to research and evaluate financial investments in order to determine profitability and risk.
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1910 Moody's Mag. May 332/2 The investment analyst wearies of groping in the dark after facts with which to enlighten his clientele.
1949 Analysts Jrnl. 5 35/2 The competent investment analyst..is trained to rely on the continuity of the large number of constants and variables that make the life of a corporation.
2002 E. McLaney & P. Atrill Accounting (rev. ed.) vii. 221 The EPS [sc. earnings per share] is regarded by many investment analysts as a fundamental measure of share performance.
investment bank n. a company or institution offering investment banking services.From 1933 to the late 1990s investment banks in the United States were prohibited from undertaking commercial banking activities. Outside the United States, separation of investment and commercial banks has historically been less rigid.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > other types of bank
merchant bank1620
land-bank1696
private bank1696
paper bankc1720
national bank1736
bank of circulation1767
bank of deposit1767
corporate bank1780
state bank1791
branch bank1796
reserve bank1816
investment bank1824
bank of issue1831
commercial bank1838
red dog1838
wild cat1838
central bank1841
national bank1864
investment house1878
issue house1878
clearing-bank1883
issuing house1890
member bank1914
custodian1915
merchant banker1924
Swiss bank1949
development bank1950
Transcash1982
telephone bank1985
bancassurer1991
1824 Morning Chron. 19 Apr. The following are some of the new plans lately brought forward in the City, for the investment of capital..:—The Alliance Insurance Company... The Equitable Loan Bank... The Metropolitan Investment Bank.
1934 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 171 4/1 The necessity for reforms of structure and policy in regard to commercial banks, investment banks, and the Federal Reserve System.
2014 Times (National ed.) (Nexis) 23 June (Business section) 38 Not so long ago, bond traders were the rock stars on an investment bank's trading floor.
investment banker n. originally U.S. a person engaged in investment banking; (also occasionally) an investment bank.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > manager, director, or proprietor of bank > types of banker
merchant banker1652
private banker1711
actuary1816
corporate banker1841
investment banker1880
clearer1883
clearing-banker1885
bankster1931
1880 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 22 July 5/6 (advt.) Money to loan. At 6, 7 and 8 per cent. Municipal bonds bought and sold. Schley & Mercein, Investment Bankers.
1934 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 171 79/2 If a corporation requires the services of an investment banker, would not its commercial bank, that for many years supplied the short-term credit, be better equipped to render such aid through its investment affiliate?
1989 M. Lewis Liar's Poker 28 I want to be an investment banker. Lehman Brothers is the best. I want to be rich.
2009 Northern Echo (Nexis) 15 Apr. 11 Hopes of a turnaround in the battered banking sector sent bank stocks soaring yesterday after better-than-expected profits from US investment banker Goldman Sachs.
investment banking n. originally U.S. (originally) the business of investing in property, stocks, bonds, etc., on behalf of clients such as corporations and wealthy individuals (now rare); (now) the business of investing or raising large sums of capital on behalf of clients (typically other firms) in various ways.Investment banking includes providing long-term corporate finance funded by the trade and underwriting of securities, as well as arranging mergers of firms or acquisitions of one firm by another (with the client in either role).Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > types of
private banking1757
merchant banking1772
corporate banking1811
commercial banking1819
investment banking1883
wild cat1896
electronic banking1957
Eurobanking1961
telephone banking1966
telebanking1974
1883 Boston Daily Globe 28 Nov. (Morning ed.) (Suppl.) 1/2 He intends to continue the investment banking business.
1934 Washington Post 26 June (Financial section) 17/6 Under the banking act of 1933 an attempt has been made to separate commercial banking from investment banking.
1990 F. Dannen Hit Men (1991) xx. 328 The joyful secret of investment banking—it is lucrative to be standing by when a lot of money changes hands.
2009 Evening Standard (Nexis) 27 Jan. 27 The larger question of what is going to happen to investment banking whether it exists as a division of a large commercial bank..or as one of the two remaining standalones of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
investment bond n. a bond issued by a government or public company, purchased as a means of investment, and offering a return comprising interest payments and capital repayment; spec. a single-premium, unit-linked life insurance policy for long-term investment.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond
government securities1707
Sword-blade bond1707
long bond1720
government paper1774
indent1788
premium bond1820
active1835
preference bond1848
investment bond1853
mortgage bond1853
revenue bond1853
municipal bond1858
treasury-bond1858
sices1867
property bond1869
government1870
priority bond1884
municipal1888
income bonds1889
yearling1889
war baby1901
Liberty Bond1917
Liberty Loan1917
victory bond1917
corporate1922
performance bond1938
convertible1957
Eurobond1966
Euroconvertible1968
managed bond1972
muni1973
granny bond1976
bulldog bond1980
Euro1981
granny1981
strip1982
zero1982
1853 Amer., & Commerc. Daily Advertiser (Baltimore) 21 July (advt.) Investment bonds for sale. We offer for sale the coupon bonds of Fayette County, Kentucky, guaranteed and convertible.
1985 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 23/2 This year the Budget will mean a special jump in the value of investment bonds, irrespective of the value of the investments that they hold.
2009 P. Hargreaves In for Penny iv. 53 The problem with an investment bond was that you were locked in to the investment expertise of just one company's funds.
investment certificate n. a bond or note issue offering a guaranteed minimum return comprising interest payments and capital repayment; a document certifying such a transaction.
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1861 Essex Standard 13 Dec. (advt.) Investment certificates are granted to pay 5 per cent. interest, and can be withdrawn on giving one month's notice.
1942 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 15 173 The bulk of the association's funds come from the issuance of ‘investment certificates,’ which are in the nature of preferred stock.
2014 R. T. Stamler et al. Fraud Prevention & Detection xii. 135 Modern business pyramid schemes are usually bundled up in some type of investment scam that produces millions of dollars through the sale of investment certificates, territory, or products.
investment club n. a group of people who pool money in order to make investments.
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1845 Leicester Chron. 6 Dec. (heading) Profitable investment clubs.
1929 North-China Herald 9 Mar. 423/5 During recent months, quite a number of small investment clubs have been formed among the clerks and typists in City offices, to speculate on the Stock Exchange.
2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words 197 Since most investment clubs are formed as partnerships, their dividends, realized capital gains, and losses are passed through for tax reporting by the individual members.
investment consultant n. a person or company employed to provide advice on financial investments and to help with investment planning and strategy.
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1912 Times 26 Nov. 29/6 (advt.) Messrs. Ford & Wheeler, investment consultants.
1960 Financial Analysts Jrnl. 16 11/1 James H. Schurman, Analyst, with Montreal's Molson & Co., Ltd., formerly was the investment consultant to a wealthy Canadian family.
2012 M. R. Rice et al. Nonprofit Asset Managem. ix. 135 Traditionally, investment consultants provide their services on a non-discretionary basis.
investment currency n. (with reference to foreign exchange) a special currency for the buying and selling of foreign securities and property through a market separate from the ordinary foreign exchange market.An investment currency results when a government establishes controls on the exchange of foreign currency assets among its residents, as the United Kingdom did with the Exchange Control Act of 1947 (suspended in 1979 and repealed in 1987).
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1954 N.Y. Times 16 Sept. 45/4 The sperrmark—investment currency of the Bonn Government—is to be liberated today.
1973 Country Life 12 July 120/3 It is necessary to buy what is known as investment currency, which is a pool of funds created by the sale of British investments abroad.
1999 Cato Jrnl. 18 340 The ‘investment currency’ will trade at a premium over the price of the relevant foreign currency on the official market for current account transactions.
investment fund n. a sum of money designated for investment; (in later use) spec. a professionally managed fund into which many investors contribute and which is typically invested in a portfolio of stocks, property, bonds, etc.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > other investment funds
investment fund1784
investment vehicle1920
I.R.A.1921
no-load1963
hedge fund1966
swap fund1966
offshore fund1969
roll-up fund1983
tokkin1985
PEP1986
rolled-up1987
1784 Rep. Select Comm. E. India Company (House of Commons) 12 The Total Amount of the Investment Fund, allotted by the Directors for the Four following Years, is £. 4,529,000.
1836 Morning Post 7 Mar. 6/2 The outstanding debts of the society were stated at 2,000l., and the amount due to the investment fund 5,000l.
1925 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 121 24/1 The investment fund requires a deposit of 5 per cent of yearly earnings and pays interest at the rate of 6 per cent plus a sum equal to 7 per cent of the net profits of the firm.
1996 Fast Company June 114/1 A $50 million investment fund (to be financed by governments) to underwrite zero-emissions factories.
2008 D. Thompson $12 Million Stuffed Shark 262 There are investment funds that focus on art as an asset class, just as others invest in property.
investment grade n. and adj. (a) n. a credit rating given to a bond or other investment regarded as carrying a relatively low risk to the investor; (b) adj. having or relating to such a rating.
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1892 Times 3 Nov. 12/1 The American Railroad Market..depressed all stocks except those of the highest or investment grade.
1942 Jrnl. Amer. Assoc. Univ. Teachers Insurance 9 73 A stock of an operating utility company which has little debt and preferred stock outstanding may approach investment grade.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 June Individual investors will have to gauge the pre-tax as well as after-tax yields on investment grade stocks against the past and present comparisons of income.
1992 New Yorker 13 Jan. 39/1 (advt.) These investment-grade bonds pay higher yields than bonds of a similar quality.
2009 P. Vernimmen et al. Corporate Finance (ed. 2) xxx. 611 The corporate bond market can be separated between companies having a rating of at least BBB (investment grade) and companies rated BB or lower (below investment grade).
investment house n. a company or institution offering investment banking services; = investment bank n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > other types of bank
merchant bank1620
land-bank1696
private bank1696
paper bankc1720
national bank1736
bank of circulation1767
bank of deposit1767
corporate bank1780
state bank1791
branch bank1796
reserve bank1816
investment bank1824
bank of issue1831
commercial bank1838
red dog1838
wild cat1838
central bank1841
national bank1864
investment house1878
issue house1878
clearing-bank1883
issuing house1890
member bank1914
custodian1915
merchant banker1924
Swiss bank1949
development bank1950
Transcash1982
telephone bank1985
bancassurer1991
1878 Bankers' Mag. Nov. 407 A practical estimate of the credit of the city by three of the most experienced investment houses in the country.
1922 J. E. Meeker Work of Stock Exchange xvi. 442 Members of the syndicate often organize subsyndicates composed of the smaller investment houses.
2013 A. S. Blinder After Music Stopped (2014) 273 What if a giant nonbank investment house with a huge trading book was on the verge of failure?
investment income n. income derived from the return on an investment or investments.
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1861 London Q. Rev. Jan. 396 We want..a raised rate [of taxation] for investment income, not a lowered rate for profession and salaries.
1911 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 18 Nov. 1356/1 The company's investment income is derived chiefly from its ownership of shares in other railroads.
1940 Economist 20 July 83/1 The recent fall in the over-all rate of net interest..has been due..to higher taxation on all investment income.
2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Feb. c7/2 (advt.) The kiddie tax, under which investment income in excess of $1,900 a year is taxed at the parent's typically higher rate, now applies to children as old as 23 if they are full-time students.
investment industry n. the branch of commercial activity concerned with financial investment.
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1897 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 29 Aug. 24/8 In nature's republic of freemen, there will be no investment industry, no wage, no idle men nor any destitution.
1923 N.Y. Times 19 Feb. 28/1 The opinion of building contractors in this city gives rise to uneasiness on the part of many in the building construction and investment industry.
2003 Australian (Brisbane) 11 Sept. (Prime Space Suppl.) 15/2 About 60 per cent of retail money now enters the investment industry through platform products, which account for about $140 billion in investor funds.
investment management n. the management of a financial investment or investments, esp. by a person or company employed for this purpose.
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1879 Scotsman 6 Nov. 3/3 A most illegal and dishonest system of investment management.
1950 Michigan Business Rev. Nov. 15/1 These equities are obviously not subject to the same kind of investment management as are the remaining industrial and other common stocks.
1993 A. Rich What is found There v. 30 Computer manuals, intimacy manuals, parenting manuals, investment-management manuals, grief-management manuals, [etc.].
2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Mar. r4/5 Collective trusts provide the overall benefits of a mutual fund—such as professional investment management, a broadly diversified portfolio of holdings, and the like—generally at a much more effective price point.
investment manager n. a person or company employed to manage financial investments.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money
hoarder944
treasurerc1290
purse-bearerc1300
coffererc1330
pursera1450
boucherc1450
bowgerc1450
purse-masterc1450
thesaurer1473
expenditor1499
bowser1534
bursarya1552
bursar1587
stock-keeper1589
bag-bearer1598
bourser1685
sumptuary1789
money manager1874
investment manager1879
tizzy-snatcher1914
1879 Scotsman 6 Nov. 3/3 Would any investment manager kindly inform the public what security a company can offer to the shareholder when they assign their securities to the lenders?
1938 Law & Contemp. Probl. 5 375 If the investment managers are able to increase the corpus of the trust, both the life tenant and the remaindermen profit.
2014 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. (Business section) 2/1 Investors have started betting against the pound, with BlackRock, the world's largest investment manager, recently saying it was shorting sterling by buying various derivatives.
investment portfolio n. a range of financial investments (usually in stocks or shares) held by an institution or individual; = portfolio n. 2a.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > collection or list of
portfolio1848
active list1857
most active list1885
listing1909
investment portfolio1912
1912 Financial Times 9 Jan. 7/3 The holdings of these bonds in the investment portfolios of the Russian Government-inspected institutions amounted on 1st January, 1911, to 5,504,763,284 roubles.
1977 Time 13 June 47/3 Howard runs a private investment portfolio—known as a ‘hedge fund’—that has earned more than 1,000% on its original investment in 1969.
2015 Investors Chron. 2 Apr. 53/2 Reduced gains from the investment portfolio..also help explain the $23m tail-off in pre-tax profits.
investment property n. a real estate property purchased as an investment, with the aim of earning a return by renting or later reselling it.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land yielding income
rent?a1160
livelihood1438
livinga1450
stock1552
livelihead1590
investment property1832
1832 Morning Post 13 July (advt.) It is believed that so fine an investment property has not been offered for sale in that district for the last thirty years.
1930 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 148 156/2 Of the 3,500 owners enjoying the lower tax rate, a very large number had investment properties consisting of either rows of houses or apartment buildings.
2014 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 5/3 There had also been a significant rise in the number of Russians looking to buy investment properties [in London].
investment ratio n. a ratio showing the amount of investment expressed in relation to profit, costs, etc., and used to assess financial performance; (Economics) one showing the amount a country invests in fixed capital, expressed as gross capital formation divided by GDP, and used to indicate potential for growth.
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1911 Stone & Webster Public Service Jrnl. 9 93 The accompanying plot shows the relation between the operation, investment ratio and return on the investment.
1958 Foreign Affairs 36 502 A further increase in the investment ratio is required to furnish additional productive employment and to strengthen the purchasing power of the great majority.
2008 S. Bergheim Long-run Growth Forecasting v. 56 Investment ratios tend to vary significantly over time even in rich countries.
investment tool n. that which helps in planning, making, or managing a financial investment or investments.
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1931 Business Week 25 Nov. 42/1 (advt.) This book outlines the essential investment tools that the investor must understand and utilize.
1986 B. Longstreth Mod. Investm. Mangem. iii. 95 As investment tools, options are inherently neither prudent nor imprudent.
2015 Investors Chron. 2 Apr. 29/2 If you are going to use return on capital as an investment tool, then you must be able to guesstimate the amount of capital that a company employs.
investment trust n. an institution whose business is the investment of capital on behalf of its subscribers or shareholders; (now) spec. a publicly-traded company whose sole business is the investment of capital in shares, property, or other assets; cf. trust n. 8b.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > trust corporation
trust1825
trust corporation1839
investment trust1868
1868 Standard 30 May 6/5 The late advance in the price of foreign stocks will have proved most advantageous for those who are interested in the ‘Foreign and Colonial Government Investment Trust.’
1967 Spectator 21 July 85/3 Investment trusts are closed portfolios. Selling or buying shares in such trusts neither increases nor decreases the size of the portfolio.
2013 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 5 Jan. 36 International funds typically funnel their purchases into a tax-efficient managed investment trust.
investment vehicle n. a financial product used as a means of investment.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > other investment funds
investment fund1784
investment vehicle1920
I.R.A.1921
no-load1963
hedge fund1966
swap fund1966
offshore fund1969
roll-up fund1983
tokkin1985
PEP1986
rolled-up1987
1920 Bankers Mag. (N.Y.) June (Banking Publicity section) The selection of a suitable security that will serve as an investment vehicle.
1986 Estates Gaz. 28 June 1470/4 Property Income Certificates—PINCs for short—are a completely new investment vehicle and would require setting up a special market to trade in the units.
2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 821/1 Start with tax-deferred investments, either through your employer's retirement plan or with your own personal pension, ISA, or other investment vehicle.
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