Definizione monolingua

invest

invest (third-person singular simple present invests, present participle investing, simple past and past participle invested)

1. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.

2. To envelop, wrap, cover.
   • 1667: Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 207-8
3. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
4. To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.

   Wed like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.

5. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
6. To formally give someone some power or authority.
7. To lay siege to.
8. (intransitive): To make investments.
9. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).

invest (plural invests)

1. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern ""to investigate"" for development into a significant (named) system.

Definizione dizionario invest

	investire
	to commit money...
	To make investments or an investment.

abbordo

collocare

impiegare

rivestire

spendere

Altri significati:

to formally give power

to make investments

(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

To ceremonially install someone in some office.

(dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).

To envelop, wrap, cover.

To formally give someone some power or authority.

to ceremonially install

To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.

To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.

to lay siege to

(intransitive): To make investments.

To lay siege to.

to spend money, time, effort,...

To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).