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INVEST

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an investment

Example:

Put money into bonds

Synonyms:

commit; invest; place; put

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "invest" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invest"):

fund (invest money in government securities)

roll over (re-invest (a previous investment) into a similar fund or security)

shelter (invest (money) so that it is not taxable)

tie up (invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes)

job; speculate (invest at a risk)

buy into (buy stocks or shares of a company)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Antonym:

divest (reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment))

Derivation:

investing; investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)

investment (money that is invested with an expectation of profit)

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position

Example:

there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy

Synonyms:

induct; invest; seat

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "invest" is one way to...):

instal; install (put into an office or a position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Provide with power and authority

Example:

They vested the council with special rights

Synonyms:

enthrone; invest; vest

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "invest" is one way to...):

instal; install (put into an office or a position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invest"):

consecrate; ordain; order; ordinate (appoint to a clerical posts)

coronate; crown (invest with regal power; enthrone)

enthrone; throne (put a monarch on the throne)

ordain (invest with ministerial or priestly authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

divest (deprive of status or authority)

Derivation:

investiture (the ceremony of installing a new monarch)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

Synonyms:

adorn; clothe; invest

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "invest" is one way to...):

equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

investiture (the ceremony of installing a new monarch)

investment (the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Give qualities or abilities to

Synonyms:

empower; endow; endue; gift; indue; invest

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "invest" is one way to...):

enable (render capable or able for some task)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invest"):

cover (invest with a large or excessive amount of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

Credits

 Context examples: 

It made her melancholy again; and the knowledge of what must be enduring there, invested even the house, modern, airy, and well situated as it was, with a melancholy aspect.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But there was now a great darkness besides; and that invested the storm with new terrors, real and fanciful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

China invests billions to protect its panda habitat and conserve the 1,600 remaining endangered supported by this habitat.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

It might have been a lost soul wailing, had it not been invested with a certain sad fierceness and hungry eagerness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

To qualify as extraordinary opportunities these research initiatives must: Respond to important recent developments in knowledge and technology; Offer approaches to cancer research beyond the size, scope, and funding of our current research activities; Be implemented with specific, defined investments; Be described in terms of achievable milestones, with clear consequences for not investing; and Promise advances for making progress against all cancers.

(Extraordinary Opportunities for Investment, NCI Thesaurus)

Male birds of species that form long-lasting pair-bonds often continue to make elaborate displays of plumage, color and dance after they mate with a female, encouraging the female to invest more energy into their brood.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)

Prof Pillai added: Given the problems of obesity and illnesses directly linked to unhealthy eating habits, the direct effect of nutrition involvement on dietary behaviours demonstrated in this study underscores the importance of investing in efforts to promote nutrition involvement from a public health policy perspective.

(People with Positive Attitude More Likely to Eat Healthily, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Still some novelty was necessary, to give to their return the piquancy with which I wished it to be invested.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You do not propose to invest your money in this manner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The glamour of romance with which her imagination had invested him faded away in the cold light of fact that he was an ex-laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)