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Invest

//ɪnˈvɛst// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.
Verb
  1. 1
    To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

    "We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event."

  2. 2
    make an investment wordnet
  3. 3
    To clothe or wrap (with garments). dated, transitive

    "He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck."

  4. 4
    place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position wordnet
  5. 5
    To put on (clothing). intransitive, obsolete

    "Cannot find one this girdle to invest!"

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  1. 6
    provide with power and authority wordnet
  2. 7
    To envelop, wrap, cover.

    "Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes"

  3. 8
    furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors wordnet
  4. 9
    To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
  5. 10
    give qualities or abilities to wordnet
  6. 11
    To ceremonially install someone in some office.
  7. 12
    To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

    "Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]"

  8. 13
    To formally give (power or authority).

    "For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence."

  9. 14
    To surround, accompany, or attend.

    "The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it."

  10. 15
    To lay siege to.

    "to invest a town"

  11. 16
    To make investments. intransitive
  12. 17
    To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
  13. 18
    To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to. intransitive

    "From early on in his career, Zola's work as a critic revealed just how heavily he was invested in the literary “dream of stone.”"

  14. 19
    To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote. Spanish

    "The outcome also makes it very difficult for Feijóo to become the next PM, because he does not have the support to be invested as such, unless there are changes in the initial positions of key players such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV)."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French investir or Medieval Latin investire, from Latin investio (“to clothe, cover”), from in- (“in, on”) + vestio (“to clothe, dress”), from vestis (“clothing”); see vest. The sense “to spend money etc.” probably via Italian investire, of the same root.

Etymology 2

From investigate, by shortening.

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