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/ɪnvˈɛstmənt/ /ɪnvˈɛsmənt/ Listen

noun

Investment n.

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

That with which anyone is invested; a vestment. "Whose white investments figure innocence."

(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."

The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; also, 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." "An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens."

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... equal to its own. The battle was a stubborn one, and Abercromby fell mortally wounded ere its close; but after six hours' fighting the French drew off with heavy loss; and their retreat was followed by the investment of Alexandria and Cairo, into which Menou had withdrawn his army. All hope however was over. Five thousand Turks, with a fresh division from England and India, reinforced the besiegers; and at the close of June the capitulation of the 13,000 soldiers who remained closed the French ...

— History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) - Modern England, 1760-1815 • John Richard Green

... up their chimneys—few people have chimneys nowadays. They want to invest it; and so you prepare investments for them. Take the street railroads here in New York, for instance. What could be a safer investment than the street railroads of the Metropolis? An absolute monopoly, and traffic growing so fast that construction can't keep up with it. Profits are sure. So people buy street railway stocks and bonds. In this case it's the politicians ...

— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair

... sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thenardiers had two. The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good investment for the other. The little Thenardiers became little Magnons. Magnon quitted the Quai des Celestins and went to live in the Rue Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself is broken between one ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... theater. He nagged at Gustave to give him a chance. One day Gustave saw some handsome souvenir books of "The Black Crook," which was then having its sensational run at Niblo's Garden. He found that he could buy them for thirty-three cents by the half-dozen, so he made a small investment, hoping to sell them for fifty cents in the lobby of the theater. That evening he showed ...

— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... By F.W. HIRST, Editor of the London Economist. Reveals to the non-financial mind the facts about investment, speculation, and the other terms which the ...

— Anthropology • Robert Marett

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