From invest + -ment.

• IPA: /ɪnˈvɛstmənt/, /ɪnˈvɛsmənt/

investment

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

   Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment.

2. (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.

   Antonyms: divestment

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC ↗:

     An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.

3. (obsolete) A vestment.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Whose white investments figure innocence.

4. (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
   • 1875, John Howard Hinton, History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement:

     the investment of the fort

5. A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.

• Portuguese: investimento
• Russian: инвести́рование
• Spanish: inversión

• French: investissement
• German: Investition, Anlage
• Italian: investimento
• Portuguese: investimento, investimentos, aposta
• Russian: инвести́ция
• Spanish: inversión

• Spanish: cerco