Usually means: Allocation of resources for future returns.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. investment: Merriam-Webster
  2. investment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. investment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. investment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. investment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Investment, investment: Wordnik
  7. investment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. investment: Wiktionary
  9. investment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. investment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. investment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. investment: Dictionary.com
  13. investment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Investment (disambiguation), Investment (economics), Investment (film), Investment (macroeconomics), Investment (military), Investment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Investment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. investment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. investment: Rhymezone
  18. investment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. investment: FreeDictionary.org
  20. investment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. investment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. investment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. investment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. investment: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. investment: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. investment: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. investment: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. investment: Glossary of research economics
  8. Investment: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Investment: Investopedia
  10. Investment: Securities Terminology
  11. Investment (military), investment: Legal dictionary
  12. Investment: Financial dictionary
  13. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  15. Investment: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  16. INVESTMENT: Accounting Glossary
  17. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. investment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. investment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. investment: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Investment: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of investing, or state of being invested.
noun:  (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
noun:  (obsolete) A vestment.
noun:  (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
noun:  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.

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