Meaning | The act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit. |
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Synonym | investment |
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Category of | bull | try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying |
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buy into | buy stocks or shares of a company |
pyramid | enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts |
subscribe | offer to buy, as of stocks and shares |
Narrower | arbitrage | A kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price |
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foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
leverage, leveraging | investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) |
Broader | finance | The commercial activity of providing funds and capital |
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Spanish | inversión |
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Catalan | inversió |
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Verbs | invest | make an investment |
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