investments

nounsomething given, lent for a return

Synonyms for investments

noun something given, lent for a return

Antonyms for investments

Word Origin & History

1590s, "act of putting on vestments" (a sense now found in investiture); later "act of being invested with an office, right, endowment, etc." (1640s); and "surrounding and besieging of a military target" (1811); see invest + -ment. Commercial sense is from 1610s, originally of the finances of the East India Company; general use is from 1740 in the sense of "conversion of money to property in hopes of profit," and by 1837 in the sense "amount of money so invested; property viewed as a vehicle for profit." For evolution of commercial senses, see invest.

Example Sentences for investments

He was Elizabeth's guardian, he would know if her investments had been disturbed.

And we always keep a watch on our investments down this way.

I'll be able to use some of my own ideas about the investments.

It is the history of his investments alone which might perchance interest the public.

The subject of their conversation was investments; and it bored her.

Everybody supposed he had big returns from mines and stocks and other investments.

Its returns are insignificantly small compared with the investments.

Great properties are slow to develop; but I have patience with my investments.

Investments were lost, or lessened, or put off indefinitely in their payments.

Now the leaders are prepared—for markets, for trade, for investments.