investment
investment is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That with which anyone is invested; a vestment. Whose white investments figure innocence. Shak.
- 2.(Mil.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. Marshall.
- 3.The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested. Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accommodate
- accommodation
- advance
- ante
- bank
- bleed
- bond
- bribe
- circulation
- commercial
- contingent
- cost
- debt
- demise
- deposit
- disburse
- disbursement
- donation
- earnest
- expend
- expenditure
- fee
- feneration
- footing
- fork
- garnish
- get
- give
- going
- handsel
- home
- installment
- interest
- intrust
- invest
- item
- lay
- lease
- lend
- lender
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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