invest
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ɪnˈvɛst/
invest (invests, present participle investing; past and past participle invested)
- To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
- We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
- (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
- To envelop, wrap, cover.
- To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
- To ceremonially install someone in some office.
- To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
- To formally give (power or authority).
- To surround, accompany, or attend.
- To lay siege to.
- to invest a town
- (intransitive) To make investments.
- (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
- (intransitive) To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.
- (put on clothing) beclothe, don, dress; see also Thesaurus:clothe
- (lay siege to) besiege
- Portuguese: cobrir
- Russian: покрыва́ть
- French: investir
- German: investieren
- Italian: investire
- Portuguese: investir
- Russian: инвести́ровать
- Spanish: invertir
- French: investir; consacrer (time and effort)
- German: investieren
- Italian: investire
- Portuguese: investir
- Russian: вкла́дывать
- Spanish: invertir
- French: investir
- German: investieren
- Portuguese: investir
- Spanish: invertir
invest (plural invests)
- (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
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