Invest

[ɪn'vest] or [ɪn'vɛst]

Definition

(verb.) make an investment; 'Put money into bonds'.

(verb.) provide with power and authority; 'They vested the council with special rights'.

(verb.) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors.

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Definition

(v. t.) To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

(v. t.) To put on.

(v. t.) To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate.

(v. t.) To surround, accompany, or attend.

(v. t.) To confer; to give.

(v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

(v. t.) To lay out (money or capital) in business with the /iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.

(v. i.) To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Clothe, dress, array.[2]. Endow (as with authority or power), endue.[3]. Put at interest (as money).[4]. (Mil.) Enclose, surround, besiege, lay siege to.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See DIVEST]

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Definition

v.t. to put vesture on to dress: to confer or give: to place in office or authority: to adorn: to surround: to block up: to lay siege to: to place: as property in business: to lay out money on.—adj. Inves′titive.—ns. Inves′titure in feudal and ecclesiastical history the act of giving corporal possession of a manor office or benefice accompanied by a certain ceremonial such as the delivery of a branch a banner &c. to signify the authority which it is supposed to convey; Invest′ment the act of investing: a blockade: the act of surrounding or besieging: laying out money on: any placing of money to secure income or profit: that in which anything is invested: (Shak.) clothing; Inves′tor one who invests.

Typist: Marvin