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investment definition

in·vest·ment (in vest′mənt)

noun

  1. an investing or being invested
  2. an outer covering
  3. investiture (sense )
    1. the investing of money
    2. the amount invested
    3. anything in which money is or may be invested

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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