Definition of invest in English:

invest

verbɪnˈvɛstɪnˈvɛst

[with object]

1Put (money) into financial schemes, shares, property, or a commercial venture with the expectation of achieving a profit.
the company is to invest £12 m in its manufacturing site at Linlithglow
no object getting workers to invest in private pension funds
Example sentencesExamples
- These open-ended funds may invest in a basket of individual stocks, while more conservative funds will invest their money on the bond market.
- Old people with a pension fund, widows, and the wardens of orphans must invest their money into the financial markets, lest its purchasing power evaporate under their noses.
- It is expected that fund managers will be investing new money in foreign stocks rather than actively selling Irish ones.
- The money deposited in the Fund is invested and profits can then be used for training schemes and job creation projects.
- The University has five primary groups of funds that are separately invested.
- Along with the rest of the state's pension assets, the bond money was invested heavily in equities and rose in value as the stock market boomed in the late 1990s.
- The fund turned them down, but Mr Smith took a leap of faith and invested his own money
- You earn your money; you pay income tax and invest your money.
- By the end of March, China's foreign exchange reserves had jumped 37 percent from a year earlier to exceed US $1.2 trillion, which are mainly invested in low-yielding US dollar bonds.
- They might regard it as more attractive, at least in some cases, to sell their shares and invest the money elsewhere.
- Provided you use a low-cost broker, you can ensure that 100 per cent of your money is invested into a relevant fund.
- During those days, we met up one afternoon in my pub and decided that you will invest money in developing properties and that myself and Mohan would contribute as working partners.
- You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before you invest.
- Insurance companies make profits by investing the income from premiums.
- Anyone who has invested money in equities over a long period of time will know that stockmarkets beat inflation by a wide margin.
- ‘The pharmaceutical companies have invested vast sums of money in plants in Ireland, and have never pulled out,’ he said.
- This may cause some concern to Irish people who have invested money in residential property in Britain, but most economic commentators are confident that the market is not set to collapse.
- She invested substantial sums of money before opening it as a guesthouse and restaurant.
- Just this past week a person who is two months away from becoming a pensioner told me he wished he had, every time he changed his job, invested his pension money rather than cashing it in.
- Financially savvy women are beginning to invest their money to ensure they have high living standards in retirement.
Synonyms
put money into, sink money into, lay out money on, plough money into
provide capital for, spend money on, fund, back, finance, underwrite, subsidize, support, pay for
buy into, buy shares in, buy/take a stake in
informal get a piece of, splash out on
1. 1.1 Devote (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result.
  we have invested a considerable amount of time in demonstrating the value of the system
  Example sentencesExamples
  I feel that she is being insensitive to the fact that I just need to know there is some potential or otherwise I have to invest my energy elsewhere.
  The worker invests work effort in the job in expectation of rewards.
  As an organizer, you need to invest energy in creating an environment that makes interaction natural.
  By exploring your thoughts you can consciously discard those that are draining you and instead invest your energy into creating the positive, empowering experience you deserve.
  But instead of investing his energy into outward noise that drifts skywards into nothingness, you sense he invests energy inwards, into making himself the best that he can be.
  The large parties did nothing to block such tendencies, instead investing their efforts and resources in winning the grand prize, the prime ministerial position.
  By investing energy into trying out different possible approaches, you improve your understanding of the problem, and get closer to a reasonable solution.
  Once we believe the goals are attainable, we invest the effort and resources necessary to ensure success.
  A huge amount of energy was invested by D' Alema and his party in trying, by one means or another, to force this change through, in the hope that Berlusconi would find it to his advantage, too.
  At least 29 million of these cases could be prevented if more resources and efforts are invested now.
  Todt believes Ferrari's dominance is simply their reward for investing energy in building a team over a long period of time.
  If you agree with this, it demands that any version 1.0 project invests energy in understanding what will be improved on.
  The women interviewed thus made guarding against violence a priority, investing considerable energy into the social networks that act as their insurance.
  Paying a fair price for matchmaking helps ensure that professionals and others are willing to invest efforts that are commensurate with the great importance of this activity.
  British Petroleum, despite its attempts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is investing substantial resources in solar power.
  They are forced to make choices about where to invest their emotional energy and invariably choose to invest their helping energies in resolving their personal life stress.
  Hibs may boast a better all-round squad but, quietly and effectively, Kilmarnock have been developing some fine young players, investing effort and time in hope for the future.
  If your congregation makes wise use of its gifts, parishioners will likely see it as a good place to invest their energy and their resources.
  Prior to that, he had served with distinction with the Colligan Club and had also invested huge effort and time in the Scór Talent Competition.
  Joseph said while some people were looking for instant gratification, one had to be willing to invest effort and energy to get the desired results.
  Synonyms
  spend, expend, lay out, put in, plough in, use up, devote
  venture, speculate, risk, gamble
  contribute, donate, give
2. 1.2invest ininformal no object Buy (a relatively expensive product) whose usefulness will repay the cost.
  I invested in an expensive moisturizer and tried to drink more water
  Example sentencesExamples
  The high retention rate is also partly due to the time, care, and expense the company invests in recruiting.
  Synonyms
  purchase, make a purchase of, make the purchase of, acquire, obtain, get, pick up, snap up
2invest someone/something withProvide or endow someone or something with (a particular quality or attribute)
the passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humour
Example sentencesExamples
- It gives us vivid, sickening scenes and a worthy reminder of man's inhumanity, and sole actor Tom Barnett invests his performance with skill and honesty.
- He invests Reznik with a humanity, a fragility that makes for some truly harrowing moments.
- The financial power of society awaits the rise of tough-minded social inventors, investing risk-takers with the courage to take control of their own money.
- Characterization, which typically involves investing protagonists with varying degrees of insight approaching omniscience, comes later.
- At the London Business School, professor of organisational behaviour John W Hunt also invests leaders with a special something.
- While the Oscar felt more like a lifetime achievement award, the role invested Hepburn with the kind of humanity and concern for family that helped contradict her late-career screen image.
- She invests her great grandmother with a mysterious exotic quality.
- He began these compacted tutorials on his last world tour; as the appreciative response from 100,000 Czechs proves, it invests his shows with an admirable kind of warmth.
- Its presence is what invests every human being with a multiplicity of powers and potentialities.
- It is the fact that civility requires us to show respect for people we do not know that invests it with a strong moral quality.
- The song Old Man River reminds us that the habit of investing waterways with something like a soul is an old one.
- The solid cast brings a crucial restraint to the material, investing the characters with an unspoken sense of sad resignation.
- The Beijing-born lecturer in ceramics at Shanghai University still invests his chairs with decorative swirls of Chinese calligraphy, affirming his Chinese heritage.
- But today the artist is invested with almost magical powers to solve social problems, and is given free rein to go where he likes.
- The premium action hero of the new age invests his character with almost alarming seriousness and is about the only one in the cast who has the courage to throw away the protective veil of self-irony.
- Bhabha invests the boundary with the importance as providing the genesis of presence.
- Selby invests his characters with absolutely tons of emotion and empathy and hope and humanity etc. - hence why it's so devastating and cathartic when indescribably terrible things happen to them.
- Vidal invests his hero with an innocence and naïveté that he himself no longer possesses, though he is as young.
- Kevin Pollack invests his version with the subtle genius of a masterful character study.
- Laid back and lanky, he invests the character with the tensile quality of a coiled spring and a panther-like sensuality that is striking.
Synonyms
imbue, infuse, perfuse, charge, steep, saturate, suffuse, pervade, fill, endow
1. 2.1 Formally confer a rank or office on (someone)
  he was invested as Head of State on 1 October 1936
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was invested with the award in a ceremony on June 12 at Government House by the Administrator of the Commonwealth, Sir Guy Green.
  At his coronation on February 2nd, 1626, Charles I was solemnly invested with what was known as St Edward's Regalia.
  He was invested with the command of Multan expedition as well as of Kashmir.
  He was invested as Prince of Wales on 1 July 1969, in a televised ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, and in 1970 became the first heir to the throne to receive a university degree.
  Palace officials will spend the summer drawing up the mission statement, representing Charles's assessment of his role over the 33 years since he was invested as Prince of Wales.
  The Prime Minister's government advised the Queen to invest him to the rank of an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
  Students had the privilege of investing him into the role of Chancellor.
  He was invested on Saturday 24 December, and resigned on Candlemas - Thursday 2 February.
  The king stripped it of its powers of remonstrance and registry, and he invested those powers in a new Plenary Court to be appointed by him.
  In Scotland this was probably last November, when Archbishop Keith Patrick O'Brien invested me, a Scottish Episcopalian, as a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester.
  She was invested as a serving sister of the Order of St John at a ceremony in the order's Grand Priory Church in Clerkenwell, London.
  He was invested with the Guruship on May 25, 1606 just days before his father's martyrdom.
  She was invested with her chain and robes of office at a ceremony in the Watson Hall on Monday.
  Meanwhile, Scouts in York have been formally invested into the new Explorer Scout section, which is designed to attract more teenagers to join.
  Synonyms
  admit to office, instate, install, induct, swear in
  ordain, anoint
  crown, enthrone
2. 2.2invest something in Confer a right or power on (someone or something)
  all executive powers were invested in the Secretary of State
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet other observers of Islam have invested much faith in its healing powers, and its attraction has only grown in the past eight months.
  No statutory provision invests the Governor in Council with a power of removing members of the police force from office.
  Should the shareholders invest their hopes in the power of prayer?
  With time, that study may even reveal the nature of sacred lands, and tell us what powers were invested in the kahuna nui.
  The main idea of this structure was that executive powers would be invested in the hands of the union's executive but that these powers would also be counterbalanced in two key ways.
  Her proof that the Founding Fathers got the idea of separation of powers from the bible is a single verse that in point of fact says that all three powers are invested in God.
  The hundreds of spirits in the voodoo pantheon invest their power in both African imagery and in corresponding identities, including Catholic saints.
  We must not make an idolatry of modern medicine, investing powers in the medical establishment far beyond its true capacity.
  Instead, all power will be invested in the ‘wise’ ruling party, who will control the press, suppress dissent, kill democrats, order occupying troops into other nations like Tibet, and yet be inherently ‘benevolent’.
  Synonyms
  vest in, endow in, confer on, bestow on, grant to, entrust to, give to, consign to, put in someone's hands
3archaic Clothe or cover with a garment.
he stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling
Synonyms
dress, attire, outfit, array, rig, rig out, turn out, fit out, costume, trick out, trick up, robe, garb, deck out, drape, accoutre
4archaic Surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it.
Fort Pulaski was invested and captured
Example sentencesExamples
- On 5 May the Japanese Second Army landed north of Port Arthur, cutting it off from the Russian Manchurian Army, followed by Third Army under Nogi which invested the place on 26 June.
- In 1153, Baldwin launched a major attack on Ascalon, with an army large enough to invest the great city completely.
Synonyms
besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset, surround, enclose

Derivatives

investable

adjective

Yu figures Chinese in America possess $200 billion in investable assets.
Example sentencesExamples
- The best chance for Schwab is to home in on its traditional key client group - the so-called mass affluent, those who have investable assets of $100,000 to $1 million.
- A single fund manager, and particularly a start-up, will face performance-critical logistical difficulties that a multi-manager fund will tend to have addressed before it becomes investable.
- Among substantial investors, those with more than $100,000 in investable assets, expectations increased to 10.7 percent in March from 8.8 per cent last month.
- They say they will target customers with investable assets of between $100,000 and $500,000.

investible

adjectiveɪnˈvɛstɪblɪnˈvɛstəb(ə)l

With the creation of additional financial sector liabilities determining the demand for securities, the ‘supply of investible funds’ became extraordinarily ‘elastic.’
Example sentencesExamples
- There's been a massive repatriation of money invested abroad, which has now come home and is looking for investible opportunities.
- Unlike well irrigation, which depends upon the investible capacity of farmers, public canals benefit all classes of farmers in proportion to the area they hold in the command area.
- For example, the superannuation sector's investible pool which will be nudging a trillion dollars next year is being force fed with about $50 billion of new money each year.
- ‘The 0.15 per cent turnover tax on investment will be a burden on the cost of management of investible funds,’ says Ghosh.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the senses 'clothe', 'clothe with the insignia of a rank', and 'endow with authority'): from French investir or Latin investire, from in- 'into, upon' + vestire 'clothe' (from vestis 'clothing'). sense 1 (early 17th century) is influenced by Italian investire.

The root of invest is Latin vestis ‘clothes’, also the source of vest (Late Middle English), and which shares an Indo-European root with wear (Old English). Latin investire meant ‘to put clothes on someone’, and was the sense of invest when it entered English in the mid 16th century. Someone being formally installed in a job or office would once have been ceremonially dressed in special clothing, and this is behind the sense ‘to formally confer a rank or office on someone’. The main modern use of the word is financial—putting money into a commercial venture with the expectation of profit. This came into English under the influence of a related Italian word in the early 17th century, apparently through a comparison between putting money into various enterprises and dressing it in a variety of clothing.

Definition of invest in US English:

invest

verbinˈvestɪnˈvɛst

1no object Expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture.
with object the company is to invest $12 million in its new manufacturing site
getting workers to invest in private pension funds
Example sentencesExamples
- Old people with a pension fund, widows, and the wardens of orphans must invest their money into the financial markets, lest its purchasing power evaporate under their noses.
- The University has five primary groups of funds that are separately invested.
- They might regard it as more attractive, at least in some cases, to sell their shares and invest the money elsewhere.
- This may cause some concern to Irish people who have invested money in residential property in Britain, but most economic commentators are confident that the market is not set to collapse.
- These open-ended funds may invest in a basket of individual stocks, while more conservative funds will invest their money on the bond market.
- The fund turned them down, but Mr Smith took a leap of faith and invested his own money
- During those days, we met up one afternoon in my pub and decided that you will invest money in developing properties and that myself and Mohan would contribute as working partners.
- By the end of March, China's foreign exchange reserves had jumped 37 percent from a year earlier to exceed US $1.2 trillion, which are mainly invested in low-yielding US dollar bonds.
- Along with the rest of the state's pension assets, the bond money was invested heavily in equities and rose in value as the stock market boomed in the late 1990s.
- Just this past week a person who is two months away from becoming a pensioner told me he wished he had, every time he changed his job, invested his pension money rather than cashing it in.
- She invested substantial sums of money before opening it as a guesthouse and restaurant.
- You earn your money; you pay income tax and invest your money.
- Anyone who has invested money in equities over a long period of time will know that stockmarkets beat inflation by a wide margin.
- Insurance companies make profits by investing the income from premiums.
- It is expected that fund managers will be investing new money in foreign stocks rather than actively selling Irish ones.
- The money deposited in the Fund is invested and profits can then be used for training schemes and job creation projects.
- Financially savvy women are beginning to invest their money to ensure they have high living standards in retirement.
- You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before you invest.
- Provided you use a low-cost broker, you can ensure that 100 per cent of your money is invested into a relevant fund.
- ‘The pharmaceutical companies have invested vast sums of money in plants in Ireland, and have never pulled out,’ he said.
Synonyms
put money into, sink money into, lay out money on, plough money into
1. 1.1with object Devote (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result.
  politicians who have invested so much time in the Constitution would be crestfallen
  Example sentencesExamples
  The large parties did nothing to block such tendencies, instead investing their efforts and resources in winning the grand prize, the prime ministerial position.
  Prior to that, he had served with distinction with the Colligan Club and had also invested huge effort and time in the Scór Talent Competition.
  I feel that she is being insensitive to the fact that I just need to know there is some potential or otherwise I have to invest my energy elsewhere.
  But instead of investing his energy into outward noise that drifts skywards into nothingness, you sense he invests energy inwards, into making himself the best that he can be.
  Once we believe the goals are attainable, we invest the effort and resources necessary to ensure success.
  Paying a fair price for matchmaking helps ensure that professionals and others are willing to invest efforts that are commensurate with the great importance of this activity.
  If you agree with this, it demands that any version 1.0 project invests energy in understanding what will be improved on.
  Hibs may boast a better all-round squad but, quietly and effectively, Kilmarnock have been developing some fine young players, investing effort and time in hope for the future.
  Todt believes Ferrari's dominance is simply their reward for investing energy in building a team over a long period of time.
  As an organizer, you need to invest energy in creating an environment that makes interaction natural.
  They are forced to make choices about where to invest their emotional energy and invariably choose to invest their helping energies in resolving their personal life stress.
  British Petroleum, despite its attempts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is investing substantial resources in solar power.
  The worker invests work effort in the job in expectation of rewards.
  The women interviewed thus made guarding against violence a priority, investing considerable energy into the social networks that act as their insurance.
  At least 29 million of these cases could be prevented if more resources and efforts are invested now.
  By exploring your thoughts you can consciously discard those that are draining you and instead invest your energy into creating the positive, empowering experience you deserve.
  A huge amount of energy was invested by D' Alema and his party in trying, by one means or another, to force this change through, in the hope that Berlusconi would find it to his advantage, too.
  If your congregation makes wise use of its gifts, parishioners will likely see it as a good place to invest their energy and their resources.
  Joseph said while some people were looking for instant gratification, one had to be willing to invest effort and energy to get the desired results.
  By investing energy into trying out different possible approaches, you improve your understanding of the problem, and get closer to a reasonable solution.
  Synonyms
  spend, expend, lay out, put in, plough in, use up, devote
2. 1.2invest ininformal no object Buy (something) whose usefulness will repay the cost.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The high retention rate is also partly due to the time, care, and expense the company invests in recruiting.
  Synonyms
  purchase, make a purchase of, make the purchase of, acquire, obtain, get, pick up, snap up
2invest someone/something withwith object Provide or endow someone or something with (a particular quality or attribute)
the passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humor
Example sentencesExamples
- At the London Business School, professor of organisational behaviour John W Hunt also invests leaders with a special something.
- While the Oscar felt more like a lifetime achievement award, the role invested Hepburn with the kind of humanity and concern for family that helped contradict her late-career screen image.
- Characterization, which typically involves investing protagonists with varying degrees of insight approaching omniscience, comes later.
- It gives us vivid, sickening scenes and a worthy reminder of man's inhumanity, and sole actor Tom Barnett invests his performance with skill and honesty.
- The song Old Man River reminds us that the habit of investing waterways with something like a soul is an old one.
- The solid cast brings a crucial restraint to the material, investing the characters with an unspoken sense of sad resignation.
- But today the artist is invested with almost magical powers to solve social problems, and is given free rein to go where he likes.
- Kevin Pollack invests his version with the subtle genius of a masterful character study.
- She invests her great grandmother with a mysterious exotic quality.
- The premium action hero of the new age invests his character with almost alarming seriousness and is about the only one in the cast who has the courage to throw away the protective veil of self-irony.
- He invests Reznik with a humanity, a fragility that makes for some truly harrowing moments.
- It is the fact that civility requires us to show respect for people we do not know that invests it with a strong moral quality.
- Bhabha invests the boundary with the importance as providing the genesis of presence.
- Its presence is what invests every human being with a multiplicity of powers and potentialities.
- He began these compacted tutorials on his last world tour; as the appreciative response from 100,000 Czechs proves, it invests his shows with an admirable kind of warmth.
- The Beijing-born lecturer in ceramics at Shanghai University still invests his chairs with decorative swirls of Chinese calligraphy, affirming his Chinese heritage.
- Selby invests his characters with absolutely tons of emotion and empathy and hope and humanity etc. - hence why it's so devastating and cathartic when indescribably terrible things happen to them.
- Vidal invests his hero with an innocence and naïveté that he himself no longer possesses, though he is as young.
- The financial power of society awaits the rise of tough-minded social inventors, investing risk-takers with the courage to take control of their own money.
- Laid back and lanky, he invests the character with the tensile quality of a coiled spring and a panther-like sensuality that is striking.
Synonyms
imbue, infuse, perfuse, charge, steep, saturate, suffuse, pervade, fill, endow
1. 2.1 Endow someone with (a rank or office).
  Example sentencesExamples
  At his coronation on February 2nd, 1626, Charles I was solemnly invested with what was known as St Edward's Regalia.
  The king stripped it of its powers of remonstrance and registry, and he invested those powers in a new Plenary Court to be appointed by him.
  He was invested with the award in a ceremony on June 12 at Government House by the Administrator of the Commonwealth, Sir Guy Green.
  He was invested as Prince of Wales on 1 July 1969, in a televised ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, and in 1970 became the first heir to the throne to receive a university degree.
  He was invested on Saturday 24 December, and resigned on Candlemas - Thursday 2 February.
  She was invested with her chain and robes of office at a ceremony in the Watson Hall on Monday.
  He was invested with the Guruship on May 25, 1606 just days before his father's martyrdom.
  Students had the privilege of investing him into the role of Chancellor.
  In Scotland this was probably last November, when Archbishop Keith Patrick O'Brien invested me, a Scottish Episcopalian, as a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester.
  She was invested as a serving sister of the Order of St John at a ceremony in the order's Grand Priory Church in Clerkenwell, London.
  He was invested with the command of Multan expedition as well as of Kashmir.
  Meanwhile, Scouts in York have been formally invested into the new Explorer Scout section, which is designed to attract more teenagers to join.
  The Prime Minister's government advised the Queen to invest him to the rank of an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
  Palace officials will spend the summer drawing up the mission statement, representing Charles's assessment of his role over the 33 years since he was invested as Prince of Wales.
  Synonyms
  admit to office, instate, install, induct, swear in
2. 2.2invest something in Establish a right or power in.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her proof that the Founding Fathers got the idea of separation of powers from the bible is a single verse that in point of fact says that all three powers are invested in God.
  Should the shareholders invest their hopes in the power of prayer?
  No statutory provision invests the Governor in Council with a power of removing members of the police force from office.
  We must not make an idolatry of modern medicine, investing powers in the medical establishment far beyond its true capacity.
  The main idea of this structure was that executive powers would be invested in the hands of the union's executive but that these powers would also be counterbalanced in two key ways.
  The hundreds of spirits in the voodoo pantheon invest their power in both African imagery and in corresponding identities, including Catholic saints.
  With time, that study may even reveal the nature of sacred lands, and tell us what powers were invested in the kahuna nui.
  Instead, all power will be invested in the ‘wise’ ruling party, who will control the press, suppress dissent, kill democrats, order occupying troops into other nations like Tibet, and yet be inherently ‘benevolent’.
  Yet other observers of Islam have invested much faith in its healing powers, and its attraction has only grown in the past eight months.
  Synonyms
  vest in, endow in, confer on, bestow on, grant to, entrust to, give to, consign to, put in someone's hands
3archaic with object Clothe or cover with a garment.
he stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling
Synonyms
dress, attire, outfit, array, rig, rig out, turn out, fit out, costume, trick out, trick up, robe, garb, deck out, drape, accoutre
4archaic with object Surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it.
Fort Pulaski was invested and captured
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1153, Baldwin launched a major attack on Ascalon, with an army large enough to invest the great city completely.
- On 5 May the Japanese Second Army landed north of Port Arthur, cutting it off from the Russian Manchurian Army, followed by Third Army under Nogi which invested the place on 26 June.
Synonyms
besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset, surround, enclose

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the senses ‘clothe’, ‘clothe with the insignia of a rank’, and ‘endow with authority’): from French investir or Latin investire, from in- ‘into, upon’ + vestire ‘clothe’ (from vestis ‘clothing’). invest (sense 1) (early 17th century) is influenced by Italian investire.

单词	invest
释义	Definition of invest in English: invest verbɪnˈvɛstɪnˈvɛst [with object] 1Put (money) into financial schemes, shares, property, or a commercial venture with the expectation of achieving a profit. the company is to invest £12 m in its manufacturing site at Linlithglow no object getting workers to invest in private pension funds Example sentencesExamples These open-ended funds may invest in a basket of individual stocks, while more conservative funds will invest their money on the bond market. Old people with a pension fund, widows, and the wardens of orphans must invest their money into the financial markets, lest its purchasing power evaporate under their noses. It is expected that fund managers will be investing new money in foreign stocks rather than actively selling Irish ones. The money deposited in the Fund is invested and profits can then be used for training schemes and job creation projects. The University has five primary groups of funds that are separately invested. Along with the rest of the state's pension assets, the bond money was invested heavily in equities and rose in value as the stock market boomed in the late 1990s. The fund turned them down, but Mr Smith took a leap of faith and invested his own money You earn your money; you pay income tax and invest your money. By the end of March, China's foreign exchange reserves had jumped 37 percent from a year earlier to exceed US $1.2 trillion, which are mainly invested in low-yielding US dollar bonds. They might regard it as more attractive, at least in some cases, to sell their shares and invest the money elsewhere. Provided you use a low-cost broker, you can ensure that 100 per cent of your money is invested into a relevant fund. During those days, we met up one afternoon in my pub and decided that you will invest money in developing properties and that myself and Mohan would contribute as working partners. You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before you invest. Insurance companies make profits by investing the income from premiums. Anyone who has invested money in equities over a long period of time will know that stockmarkets beat inflation by a wide margin. ‘The pharmaceutical companies have invested vast sums of money in plants in Ireland, and have never pulled out,’ he said. This may cause some concern to Irish people who have invested money in residential property in Britain, but most economic commentators are confident that the market is not set to collapse. She invested substantial sums of money before opening it as a guesthouse and restaurant. Just this past week a person who is two months away from becoming a pensioner told me he wished he had, every time he changed his job, invested his pension money rather than cashing it in. Financially savvy women are beginning to invest their money to ensure they have high living standards in retirement. Synonyms put money into, sink money into, lay out money on, plough money into provide capital for, spend money on, fund, back, finance, underwrite, subsidize, support, pay for buy into, buy shares in, buy/take a stake in informal get a piece of, splash out on 1.1 Devote (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result. we have invested a considerable amount of time in demonstrating the value of the system Example sentencesExamples I feel that she is being insensitive to the fact that I just need to know there is some potential or otherwise I have to invest my energy elsewhere. The worker invests work effort in the job in expectation of rewards. As an organizer, you need to invest energy in creating an environment that makes interaction natural. By exploring your thoughts you can consciously discard those that are draining you and instead invest your energy into creating the positive, empowering experience you deserve. But instead of investing his energy into outward noise that drifts skywards into nothingness, you sense he invests energy inwards, into making himself the best that he can be. The large parties did nothing to block such tendencies, instead investing their efforts and resources in winning the grand prize, the prime ministerial position. By investing energy into trying out different possible approaches, you improve your understanding of the problem, and get closer to a reasonable solution. Once we believe the goals are attainable, we invest the effort and resources necessary to ensure success. A huge amount of energy was invested by D' Alema and his party in trying, by one means or another, to force this change through, in the hope that Berlusconi would find it to his advantage, too. At least 29 million of these cases could be prevented if more resources and efforts are invested now. Todt believes Ferrari's dominance is simply their reward for investing energy in building a team over a long period of time. If you agree with this, it demands that any version 1.0 project invests energy in understanding what will be improved on. The women interviewed thus made guarding against violence a priority, investing considerable energy into the social networks that act as their insurance. Paying a fair price for matchmaking helps ensure that professionals and others are willing to invest efforts that are commensurate with the great importance of this activity. British Petroleum, despite its attempts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is investing substantial resources in solar power. They are forced to make choices about where to invest their emotional energy and invariably choose to invest their helping energies in resolving their personal life stress. Hibs may boast a better all-round squad but, quietly and effectively, Kilmarnock have been developing some fine young players, investing effort and time in hope for the future. If your congregation makes wise use of its gifts, parishioners will likely see it as a good place to invest their energy and their resources. Prior to that, he had served with distinction with the Colligan Club and had also invested huge effort and time in the Scór Talent Competition. Joseph said while some people were looking for instant gratification, one had to be willing to invest effort and energy to get the desired results. Synonyms spend, expend, lay out, put in, plough in, use up, devote venture, speculate, risk, gamble contribute, donate, give 1.2invest ininformal no object Buy (a relatively expensive product) whose usefulness will repay the cost. I invested in an expensive moisturizer and tried to drink more water Example sentencesExamples The high retention rate is also partly due to the time, care, and expense the company invests in recruiting. Synonyms purchase, make a purchase of, make the purchase of, acquire, obtain, get, pick up, snap up 2invest someone/something withProvide or endow someone or something with (a particular quality or attribute) the passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humour Example sentencesExamples It gives us vivid, sickening scenes and a worthy reminder of man's inhumanity, and sole actor Tom Barnett invests his performance with skill and honesty. He invests Reznik with a humanity, a fragility that makes for some truly harrowing moments. The financial power of society awaits the rise of tough-minded social inventors, investing risk-takers with the courage to take control of their own money. Characterization, which typically involves investing protagonists with varying degrees of insight approaching omniscience, comes later. At the London Business School, professor of organisational behaviour John W Hunt also invests leaders with a special something. While the Oscar felt more like a lifetime achievement award, the role invested Hepburn with the kind of humanity and concern for family that helped contradict her late-career screen image. She invests her great grandmother with a mysterious exotic quality. He began these compacted tutorials on his last world tour; as the appreciative response from 100,000 Czechs proves, it invests his shows with an admirable kind of warmth. Its presence is what invests every human being with a multiplicity of powers and potentialities. It is the fact that civility requires us to show respect for people we do not know that invests it with a strong moral quality. The song Old Man River reminds us that the habit of investing waterways with something like a soul is an old one. The solid cast brings a crucial restraint to the material, investing the characters with an unspoken sense of sad resignation. The Beijing-born lecturer in ceramics at Shanghai University still invests his chairs with decorative swirls of Chinese calligraphy, affirming his Chinese heritage. But today the artist is invested with almost magical powers to solve social problems, and is given free rein to go where he likes. The premium action hero of the new age invests his character with almost alarming seriousness and is about the only one in the cast who has the courage to throw away the protective veil of self-irony. Bhabha invests the boundary with the importance as providing the genesis of presence. Selby invests his characters with absolutely tons of emotion and empathy and hope and humanity etc. - hence why it's so devastating and cathartic when indescribably terrible things happen to them. Vidal invests his hero with an innocence and naïveté that he himself no longer possesses, though he is as young. Kevin Pollack invests his version with the subtle genius of a masterful character study. Laid back and lanky, he invests the character with the tensile quality of a coiled spring and a panther-like sensuality that is striking. Synonyms imbue, infuse, perfuse, charge, steep, saturate, suffuse, pervade, fill, endow 2.1 Formally confer a rank or office on (someone) he was invested as Head of State on 1 October 1936 Example sentencesExamples He was invested with the award in a ceremony on June 12 at Government House by the Administrator of the Commonwealth, Sir Guy Green. At his coronation on February 2nd, 1626, Charles I was solemnly invested with what was known as St Edward's Regalia. He was invested with the command of Multan expedition as well as of Kashmir. He was invested as Prince of Wales on 1 July 1969, in a televised ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, and in 1970 became the first heir to the throne to receive a university degree. Palace officials will spend the summer drawing up the mission statement, representing Charles's assessment of his role over the 33 years since he was invested as Prince of Wales. The Prime Minister's government advised the Queen to invest him to the rank of an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Students had the privilege of investing him into the role of Chancellor. He was invested on Saturday 24 December, and resigned on Candlemas - Thursday 2 February. The king stripped it of its powers of remonstrance and registry, and he invested those powers in a new Plenary Court to be appointed by him. In Scotland this was probably last November, when Archbishop Keith Patrick O'Brien invested me, a Scottish Episcopalian, as a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester. She was invested as a serving sister of the Order of St John at a ceremony in the order's Grand Priory Church in Clerkenwell, London. He was invested with the Guruship on May 25, 1606 just days before his father's martyrdom. She was invested with her chain and robes of office at a ceremony in the Watson Hall on Monday. Meanwhile, Scouts in York have been formally invested into the new Explorer Scout section, which is designed to attract more teenagers to join. Synonyms admit to office, instate, install, induct, swear in ordain, anoint crown, enthrone 2.2invest something in Confer a right or power on (someone or something) all executive powers were invested in the Secretary of State Example sentencesExamples Yet other observers of Islam have invested much faith in its healing powers, and its attraction has only grown in the past eight months. No statutory provision invests the Governor in Council with a power of removing members of the police force from office. Should the shareholders invest their hopes in the power of prayer? With time, that study may even reveal the nature of sacred lands, and tell us what powers were invested in the kahuna nui. The main idea of this structure was that executive powers would be invested in the hands of the union's executive but that these powers would also be counterbalanced in two key ways. Her proof that the Founding Fathers got the idea of separation of powers from the bible is a single verse that in point of fact says that all three powers are invested in God. The hundreds of spirits in the voodoo pantheon invest their power in both African imagery and in corresponding identities, including Catholic saints. We must not make an idolatry of modern medicine, investing powers in the medical establishment far beyond its true capacity. Instead, all power will be invested in the ‘wise’ ruling party, who will control the press, suppress dissent, kill democrats, order occupying troops into other nations like Tibet, and yet be inherently ‘benevolent’. Synonyms vest in, endow in, confer on, bestow on, grant to, entrust to, give to, consign to, put in someone's hands 3archaic Clothe or cover with a garment. he stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling Synonyms dress, attire, outfit, array, rig, rig out, turn out, fit out, costume, trick out, trick up, robe, garb, deck out, drape, accoutre 4archaic Surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it. Fort Pulaski was invested and captured Example sentencesExamples On 5 May the Japanese Second Army landed north of Port Arthur, cutting it off from the Russian Manchurian Army, followed by Third Army under Nogi which invested the place on 26 June. In 1153, Baldwin launched a major attack on Ascalon, with an army large enough to invest the great city completely. Synonyms besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset, surround, enclose Derivatives investable adjective Yu figures Chinese in America possess $200 billion in investable assets. Example sentencesExamples The best chance for Schwab is to home in on its traditional key client group - the so-called mass affluent, those who have investable assets of $100,000 to $1 million. A single fund manager, and particularly a start-up, will face performance-critical logistical difficulties that a multi-manager fund will tend to have addressed before it becomes investable. Among substantial investors, those with more than $100,000 in investable assets, expectations increased to 10.7 percent in March from 8.8 per cent last month. They say they will target customers with investable assets of between $100,000 and $500,000. investible adjectiveɪnˈvɛstɪblɪnˈvɛstəb(ə)l With the creation of additional financial sector liabilities determining the demand for securities, the ‘supply of investible funds’ became extraordinarily ‘elastic.’ Example sentencesExamples There's been a massive repatriation of money invested abroad, which has now come home and is looking for investible opportunities. Unlike well irrigation, which depends upon the investible capacity of farmers, public canals benefit all classes of farmers in proportion to the area they hold in the command area. For example, the superannuation sector's investible pool which will be nudging a trillion dollars next year is being force fed with about $50 billion of new money each year. ‘The 0.15 per cent turnover tax on investment will be a burden on the cost of management of investible funds,’ says Ghosh. Origin Mid 16th century (in the senses 'clothe', 'clothe with the insignia of a rank', and 'endow with authority'): from French investir or Latin investire, from in- 'into, upon' + vestire 'clothe' (from vestis 'clothing'). sense 1 (early 17th century) is influenced by Italian investire. The root of invest is Latin vestis ‘clothes’, also the source of vest (Late Middle English), and which shares an Indo-European root with wear (Old English). Latin investire meant ‘to put clothes on someone’, and was the sense of invest when it entered English in the mid 16th century. Someone being formally installed in a job or office would once have been ceremonially dressed in special clothing, and this is behind the sense ‘to formally confer a rank or office on someone’. The main modern use of the word is financial—putting money into a commercial venture with the expectation of profit. This came into English under the influence of a related Italian word in the early 17th century, apparently through a comparison between putting money into various enterprises and dressing it in a variety of clothing. Definition of invest in US English: invest verbinˈvestɪnˈvɛst 1no object Expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture. with object the company is to invest $12 million in its new manufacturing site getting workers to invest in private pension funds Example sentencesExamples Old people with a pension fund, widows, and the wardens of orphans must invest their money into the financial markets, lest its purchasing power evaporate under their noses. The University has five primary groups of funds that are separately invested. They might regard it as more attractive, at least in some cases, to sell their shares and invest the money elsewhere. This may cause some concern to Irish people who have invested money in residential property in Britain, but most economic commentators are confident that the market is not set to collapse. These open-ended funds may invest in a basket of individual stocks, while more conservative funds will invest their money on the bond market. The fund turned them down, but Mr Smith took a leap of faith and invested his own money During those days, we met up one afternoon in my pub and decided that you will invest money in developing properties and that myself and Mohan would contribute as working partners. By the end of March, China's foreign exchange reserves had jumped 37 percent from a year earlier to exceed US $1.2 trillion, which are mainly invested in low-yielding US dollar bonds. Along with the rest of the state's pension assets, the bond money was invested heavily in equities and rose in value as the stock market boomed in the late 1990s. Just this past week a person who is two months away from becoming a pensioner told me he wished he had, every time he changed his job, invested his pension money rather than cashing it in. She invested substantial sums of money before opening it as a guesthouse and restaurant. You earn your money; you pay income tax and invest your money. Anyone who has invested money in equities over a long period of time will know that stockmarkets beat inflation by a wide margin. Insurance companies make profits by investing the income from premiums. It is expected that fund managers will be investing new money in foreign stocks rather than actively selling Irish ones. The money deposited in the Fund is invested and profits can then be used for training schemes and job creation projects. Financially savvy women are beginning to invest their money to ensure they have high living standards in retirement. You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before you invest. Provided you use a low-cost broker, you can ensure that 100 per cent of your money is invested into a relevant fund. ‘The pharmaceutical companies have invested vast sums of money in plants in Ireland, and have never pulled out,’ he said. Synonyms put money into, sink money into, lay out money on, plough money into 1.1with object Devote (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result. politicians who have invested so much time in the Constitution would be crestfallen Example sentencesExamples The large parties did nothing to block such tendencies, instead investing their efforts and resources in winning the grand prize, the prime ministerial position. Prior to that, he had served with distinction with the Colligan Club and had also invested huge effort and time in the Scór Talent Competition. I feel that she is being insensitive to the fact that I just need to know there is some potential or otherwise I have to invest my energy elsewhere. But instead of investing his energy into outward noise that drifts skywards into nothingness, you sense he invests energy inwards, into making himself the best that he can be. Once we believe the goals are attainable, we invest the effort and resources necessary to ensure success. Paying a fair price for matchmaking helps ensure that professionals and others are willing to invest efforts that are commensurate with the great importance of this activity. If you agree with this, it demands that any version 1.0 project invests energy in understanding what will be improved on. Hibs may boast a better all-round squad but, quietly and effectively, Kilmarnock have been developing some fine young players, investing effort and time in hope for the future. Todt believes Ferrari's dominance is simply their reward for investing energy in building a team over a long period of time. As an organizer, you need to invest energy in creating an environment that makes interaction natural. They are forced to make choices about where to invest their emotional energy and invariably choose to invest their helping energies in resolving their personal life stress. British Petroleum, despite its attempts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is investing substantial resources in solar power. The worker invests work effort in the job in expectation of rewards. The women interviewed thus made guarding against violence a priority, investing considerable energy into the social networks that act as their insurance. At least 29 million of these cases could be prevented if more resources and efforts are invested now. By exploring your thoughts you can consciously discard those that are draining you and instead invest your energy into creating the positive, empowering experience you deserve. A huge amount of energy was invested by D' Alema and his party in trying, by one means or another, to force this change through, in the hope that Berlusconi would find it to his advantage, too. If your congregation makes wise use of its gifts, parishioners will likely see it as a good place to invest their energy and their resources. Joseph said while some people were looking for instant gratification, one had to be willing to invest effort and energy to get the desired results. By investing energy into trying out different possible approaches, you improve your understanding of the problem, and get closer to a reasonable solution. Synonyms spend, expend, lay out, put in, plough in, use up, devote 1.2invest ininformal no object Buy (something) whose usefulness will repay the cost. Example sentencesExamples The high retention rate is also partly due to the time, care, and expense the company invests in recruiting. Synonyms purchase, make a purchase of, make the purchase of, acquire, obtain, get, pick up, snap up 2invest someone/something withwith object Provide or endow someone or something with (a particular quality or attribute) the passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humor Example sentencesExamples At the London Business School, professor of organisational behaviour John W Hunt also invests leaders with a special something. While the Oscar felt more like a lifetime achievement award, the role invested Hepburn with the kind of humanity and concern for family that helped contradict her late-career screen image. Characterization, which typically involves investing protagonists with varying degrees of insight approaching omniscience, comes later. It gives us vivid, sickening scenes and a worthy reminder of man's inhumanity, and sole actor Tom Barnett invests his performance with skill and honesty. The song Old Man River reminds us that the habit of investing waterways with something like a soul is an old one. The solid cast brings a crucial restraint to the material, investing the characters with an unspoken sense of sad resignation. But today the artist is invested with almost magical powers to solve social problems, and is given free rein to go where he likes. Kevin Pollack invests his version with the subtle genius of a masterful character study. She invests her great grandmother with a mysterious exotic quality. The premium action hero of the new age invests his character with almost alarming seriousness and is about the only one in the cast who has the courage to throw away the protective veil of self-irony. He invests Reznik with a humanity, a fragility that makes for some truly harrowing moments. It is the fact that civility requires us to show respect for people we do not know that invests it with a strong moral quality. Bhabha invests the boundary with the importance as providing the genesis of presence. Its presence is what invests every human being with a multiplicity of powers and potentialities. He began these compacted tutorials on his last world tour; as the appreciative response from 100,000 Czechs proves, it invests his shows with an admirable kind of warmth. The Beijing-born lecturer in ceramics at Shanghai University still invests his chairs with decorative swirls of Chinese calligraphy, affirming his Chinese heritage. Selby invests his characters with absolutely tons of emotion and empathy and hope and humanity etc. - hence why it's so devastating and cathartic when indescribably terrible things happen to them. Vidal invests his hero with an innocence and naïveté that he himself no longer possesses, though he is as young. The financial power of society awaits the rise of tough-minded social inventors, investing risk-takers with the courage to take control of their own money. Laid back and lanky, he invests the character with the tensile quality of a coiled spring and a panther-like sensuality that is striking. Synonyms imbue, infuse, perfuse, charge, steep, saturate, suffuse, pervade, fill, endow 2.1 Endow someone with (a rank or office). Example sentencesExamples At his coronation on February 2nd, 1626, Charles I was solemnly invested with what was known as St Edward's Regalia. The king stripped it of its powers of remonstrance and registry, and he invested those powers in a new Plenary Court to be appointed by him. He was invested with the award in a ceremony on June 12 at Government House by the Administrator of the Commonwealth, Sir Guy Green. He was invested as Prince of Wales on 1 July 1969, in a televised ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, and in 1970 became the first heir to the throne to receive a university degree. He was invested on Saturday 24 December, and resigned on Candlemas - Thursday 2 February. She was invested with her chain and robes of office at a ceremony in the Watson Hall on Monday. He was invested with the Guruship on May 25, 1606 just days before his father's martyrdom. Students had the privilege of investing him into the role of Chancellor. In Scotland this was probably last November, when Archbishop Keith Patrick O'Brien invested me, a Scottish Episcopalian, as a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester. She was invested as a serving sister of the Order of St John at a ceremony in the order's Grand Priory Church in Clerkenwell, London. He was invested with the command of Multan expedition as well as of Kashmir. Meanwhile, Scouts in York have been formally invested into the new Explorer Scout section, which is designed to attract more teenagers to join. The Prime Minister's government advised the Queen to invest him to the rank of an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Palace officials will spend the summer drawing up the mission statement, representing Charles's assessment of his role over the 33 years since he was invested as Prince of Wales. Synonyms admit to office, instate, install, induct, swear in 2.2invest something in Establish a right or power in. Example sentencesExamples Her proof that the Founding Fathers got the idea of separation of powers from the bible is a single verse that in point of fact says that all three powers are invested in God. Should the shareholders invest their hopes in the power of prayer? No statutory provision invests the Governor in Council with a power of removing members of the police force from office. We must not make an idolatry of modern medicine, investing powers in the medical establishment far beyond its true capacity. The main idea of this structure was that executive powers would be invested in the hands of the union's executive but that these powers would also be counterbalanced in two key ways. The hundreds of spirits in the voodoo pantheon invest their power in both African imagery and in corresponding identities, including Catholic saints. With time, that study may even reveal the nature of sacred lands, and tell us what powers were invested in the kahuna nui. Instead, all power will be invested in the ‘wise’ ruling party, who will control the press, suppress dissent, kill democrats, order occupying troops into other nations like Tibet, and yet be inherently ‘benevolent’. Yet other observers of Islam have invested much faith in its healing powers, and its attraction has only grown in the past eight months. Synonyms vest in, endow in, confer on, bestow on, grant to, entrust to, give to, consign to, put in someone's hands 3archaic with object Clothe or cover with a garment. he stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling Synonyms dress, attire, outfit, array, rig, rig out, turn out, fit out, costume, trick out, trick up, robe, garb, deck out, drape, accoutre 4archaic with object Surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it. Fort Pulaski was invested and captured Example sentencesExamples In 1153, Baldwin launched a major attack on Ascalon, with an army large enough to invest the great city completely. On 5 May the Japanese Second Army landed north of Port Arthur, cutting it off from the Russian Manchurian Army, followed by Third Army under Nogi which invested the place on 26 June. Synonyms besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset, surround, enclose Origin Mid 16th century (in the senses ‘clothe’, ‘clothe with the insignia of a rank’, and ‘endow with authority’): from French investir or Latin investire, from in- ‘into, upon’ + vestire ‘clothe’ (from vestis ‘clothing’). invest (sense 1) (early 17th century) is influenced by Italian investire.
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