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Investing   /ɪnvˈɛstɪŋ/   Listen
Investing

noun
1.
The act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit.  Synonym: investment.


Invest

verb
(past & past part. invested; pres. part. investing)
1.
Make an investment.  Synonyms: commit, place, put.  Antonym: divest.
2.
Give qualities or abilities to.  Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue.
3.
Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors.  Synonyms: adorn, clothe.
4.
Provide with power and authority.  Synonyms: enthrone, vest.  Antonym: divest.
5.
Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position.  Synonyms: induct, seat.



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"Investing" Quotes from Famous Books



... But that miserable "Windsor Castle" outcry is an echo out of fast-retreating old-world remembrances. The place of such a natural chief was amongst the first of the land; and that country is best, according to our British notion at least, where the man of eminence has the best chance of investing ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
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... meeting having taken place between Lord Hood and Major-General Dundas, without those officers being able to agree upon the question of investing Bastia, something very like a rupture took place; the admiral declaring that so confident was he of success, that, since General Dundas would not co-operate with him, he would undertake alone the task of reducing the place with the seamen and ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood
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... since, an old widow lady opened a boarding-house on University place, investing in the establishment and furniture all her capital. She experienced no difficulty in obtaining boarders, and among her guests she numbered a small-sized, full-faced, but keen-eyed woman by the name of Agnes S. who rented a large room on the second floor. This Mrs. ...
— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin
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... insinuation of untruths; it is made to dwell in an artificial world of hypnotic phrases. In fact, the people have become the storehouse of a power that attracts round it a swarm of adventurers who are secretly investing its walls to exploit it for ...
— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore
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... days, before the gentry of the ring had learned the wisdom of investing their winnings in solids instead of liquids, this used to be a favorite conundrum: When is a prize-fighter ...
— Buttered Side Down • Edna Ferber
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