investment
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
investment/ɪnˈvestmənt/
▶noun the action or process of investing.
■ a thing worth buying because it may be profitable or useful in the future.
'investment' also found in these Oxford entries:
AIM
- annuity
- back-end
- bank
- blue-chip
- capital gain
- capital-intensive
- capital sum
- cash cow
- closed-end
- death futures
- diminish
- disintermediation
- disinvest
- divest
- enterprise zone
- FDI
- fixed income
- flyer
- franked investment income
- front-running
- hedge
- hedge fund
- incentive
- investment bank
- investment bond
- investment trust
- inward investment
- judicious
- landbanking
- leverage
- limited partner
- managed fund
- management company
- merchant bank
- multiplier
- mutual fund
- outward investment
- payback
- pay-off
- pension
- perform
- performance
- perpetual
- personal equity plan
- planned economy
- provident fund
- pump-priming
- punter
