invest
verb
[ ɪnˈvɛst ]
• put (money) into financial schemes, shares, property, or a commercial venture with the expectation of achieving a profit.
• "the company is to invest £12 m in its manufacturing site at Linlithglow"
Similar:
put money into,
sink money into,
lay out money on,
plough money into,
provide capital for,
spend money on,
fund,
back,
finance,
underwrite,
subsidize,
support,
pay for,
buy into,
buy shares in,
buy/take a stake in,
get a piece of,
splash out on,
• provide or endow someone or something with (a particular quality or attribute).
• "the passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humour"
Similar:
imbue,
infuse,
perfuse,
charge,
steep,
saturate,
suffuse,
pervade,
fill,
endow,
• clothe or cover with a garment.
• "he stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling"
• surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it.
• "Fort Pulaski was invested and captured"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the senses ‘clothe’, ‘clothe with the insignia of a rank’, and ‘endow with authority’): from French investir or Latin investire, from in- ‘into, upon’ + vestire ‘clothe’ (from vestis ‘clothing’). invest (sense 1) (early 17th century) is influenced by Italian investire .
