Sekirov Dictionary

invest

/ɪnˈvɛst/

verb 14
noun 1
forms 5

verb14

•
to use money or time on something now because it should be worth more later
- We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
To make investments.
•
To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.
- 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.” — 2004
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
•
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: […] — 1587
To formally give (power or authority).
To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.
To surround, accompany, or attend.
To lay siege to.
•
To envelop, wrap, cover.
- Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — 1667
•
(old-fashioned) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
- He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck. — 1851
To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
•
(no longer used) To put on (clothing).
- Cannot find one this girdle to invest! — 1596

noun1

A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.

forms

invested · investing · investeth · invests · investest

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