investing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: investing	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
investing n the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit Synonym(s): investing, investment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Invest \In*vest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Investing}.] [L. investire, investitum; pref. in- in + vestire to clothe, fr. vestis clothing: cf. F. investir. See {Vest}.] 1. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to {divest}. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe. 2. To put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. --Spenser. 3. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. I do invest you jointly with my power. --Shak. 4. To surround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. --Hawthorne. 5. To confer; to give. [R.] It investeth a right of government. --Bacon. 6. (Mil.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town. 7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the [?]iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.