direct investment

direct investment definition - finance
The purchase of a controlling interest in a business or subsidiary. If the investment is in a foreign company or subsidiary, it is called foreign direct investment.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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