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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



18 words match “INVESTMENT”

INVESTMENT n. 4 definitions
That with which anyone is invested; a vestment. Whose white investments figure innocence. Shak.
REINVESTMENT n.
The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
BLUE-SKYLAW n.
A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in order to protect the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offer investments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called because the promises made by some investment companies are a…
CAPITALIST n.
One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke.
COME v.
added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U. S.] -- To c…
FORTUNATE a.
auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.
IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION n.
The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
INDUEMENT n.
The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment. W. Montagu.
INSURANCE n.
to the person. -- Endowment insurance or assurance, a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. -- Fire insurance. See under Fir…
INVEST v.
To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.
INVESTITURE n.
That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.
INVESTURE n.
Investiture; investment. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
PLANT n.
de or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
PROPERTIED a.
Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
REALIZE v.
To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc. Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real. W. Irving.
RETURN n.
The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great. Jer. Taylor.
REVENUE n.
That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray.
WATER n.
company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted." [Brokers' Cant]