INVESTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does investing mean? 

• INVESTING (noun)
  The noun INVESTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit

  Familiarity information: INVESTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVESTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

investing; investment

Hypernyms ("investing" is a kind of...):

finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)

Domain member category:

bull (try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying)

buy into (buy stocks or shares of a company)

pyramid (enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts)

subscribe (offer to buy, as of stocks and shares)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investing"):

arbitrage (a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price)

foreign direct investment (investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business))

leverage; leveraging (investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses))

Derivation:

invest (make an investment)

 Context examples 

Your enormous focus on finding, investing and saving money, and paying debt (taxes, loans, and other obligations) actually started last month on the December 25 new moon solar eclipse.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

To qualify as extraordinary opportunities these research initiatives must: Respond to important recent developments in knowledge and technology; Offer approaches to cancer research beyond the size, scope, and funding of our current research activities; Be implemented with specific, defined investments; Be described in terms of achievable milestones, with clear consequences for not investing; and Promise advances for making progress against all cancers.

(Extraordinary Opportunities for Investment, NCI Thesaurus)

Prof Pillai added: Given the problems of obesity and illnesses directly linked to unhealthy eating habits, the direct effect of nutrition involvement on dietary behaviours demonstrated in this study underscores the importance of investing in efforts to promote nutrition involvement from a public health policy perspective.

(People with Positive Attitude More Likely to Eat Healthily, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He had received a note from Lady Stornaway to beg him to call; and regarding it as what was meant to be the last, last interview of friendship, and investing her with all the feelings of shame and wretchedness which Crawford's sister ought to have known, he had gone to her in such a state of mind, so softened, so devoted, as made it for a few moments impossible to Fanny's fears that it should be the last.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He, by some wonder of vision, saw beyond the farthest outpost of empiricism, where was no language for narration, and yet, by some golden miracle of speech, investing known words with unknown significances, he conveyed to Martin's consciousness messages that were incommunicable to ordinary souls.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)