INVESTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does investor mean? 

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

1. someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVESTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))

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

contrarian (an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors)

bear (an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price)

bondholder (a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation)

bull (an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later)

caller (an investor who buys a call option)

depositor (a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution)

lender; loaner (someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters)

rentier (someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments)

shareholder; shareowner; stockholder (someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation)

Derivation:

invest (make an investment)

 Context examples 

If you are due to get a wire of venture capital, keep in close touch with your investor at this time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Kreis came to Martin one day—Kreis, of the real dirt; and Martin turned to him with relief, to receive the glowing details of a scheme sufficiently wild-catty to interest him as a fictionist rather than an investor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you stayed with the project, you discovered the way to measure up to the expectations of your editor, professor, editor, investors, or another person you were presenting your work to, and you will ultimately achieve your goal.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Or with a completely different manifestation of the January 10 eclipse, this person could be a business partner, agent, publicist, writing partner, investor, or any other collaborator you have in your life with whom you’ve made a serious commitment.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This new moon will light your eighth house of other people’s money, ruling such areas as venture capital, mortgage, court settlements, insurance claims, university financial aid, commissions, bonuses, royalties, and similar funds that tend to come to you outside of salary and that require an application (or business plan to show investors).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)