Word Finder - invest

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To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

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We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.

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To clothe or wrap (with garments).

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To put on (clothing).

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To envelop, wrap, cover.

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

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To ceremonially install someone in some office.

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To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

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To formally give (power or authority).

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To surround, accompany, or attend.

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To lay siege to.

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to invest a town

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To make investments.

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

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To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.

Now I must invest in a new vehicle.

One of his first acts was to invest the emperor Charles VI.

Invest it well and it might get her a couple of years, the way prices keep going up.

I can understand you not wanting to invest the money for a car, but what's wrong with accepting a ride now and then?

Leo agreed to invest Charles with Naples, to crown him emperor, and to aid in a war against Venice.

The French army under the duke of Burgundy and Marshal Vendome, after an abortive attempt to invest Oudenarde, took up a defensive position north of the town when Marlborough and Eugene, after a forced march, arrived with the main Allied army.

Many suffered under this law, but the ultimate effect was to invest the press with new popularity, and very soon the newspapers conceived a device which effectually protected their literary staff, for they employed dummy editors whose sole function was to go to prison in lieu of the true editor.

He attempted to invest Pompey's lines at Dyrrhachium (Durazzo), though his opponent's force was double that of his own, and was defeated with considerable loss.

You don't pick losing start-ups to invest in, why aren't they after you?

On the 12th of April Wellington advanced to invest Toulouse from the south, but Soult on the night of the nth had retreated towards Villefranque, and Wellington then entered the city.

Calvin's first principle, the absolute sovereignty of God, had been so applied as to make the divine decree determine alike the acts and the destinies of men; and his formal principle had been so construed as to invest his system with the authority of the source whence it professed to have been drawn.

By constructing an entrenched camp at Ulm and concentrating all the available food within it, he expected to compel Napoleon to invest and besiege him, and he anticipated that in the devastated country his adversary would be compelled to separate and thus fall an easy prey to the Russians.

But every dime spent on the house meant that much less she could invest in the dairy - and the dairy was the one thing that stood a chance of stimulating her anemic savings account.

Henry had besides to invest his brother with the duchy of Burgundya grave error which hampered French politics during three centuries.

He also wrote Samor, the Lord of The Bright City, the subject of which was taken from British legend, the "bright city" being Gloucester; but he failed to invest it with serious interest.

The integuments do not completely invest the apex of the nucellus, but an opening termed the micropyle is left.

Other series of modifications arise in which the tissues corresponding to the stroma invest the sporogenous hyphal ends, and thus enclose the spores, asci, basidia, &c., in a cavity.

Entering their territory, he was just about to invest the capital when he was seized with an illness which proved fatal on the 15th of May 1760.

On the other hand it was arranged that these elections should take place in the presence of the emperor or his representative, and that he should invest the new prelate with the sceptre, thus signifying that the bishop, or abbot, held his temporal fiefs from him and not from the pope.

The developing embryo at the end of the suspensor grows out to a varying extent into the forming endosperm, from which by surface absorption it derives good material for growth; at the same time the suspensor plays a direct part as a carrier of nutrition, and may even develop, where perhaps no endosperm is formed, special absorptive "suspensor roots" which invest the developing embryo, or pass out into the body and coats of the ovule, or even into the placenta.

In fact, never give your money to someone else to invest on your own behalf.

Guy says, ' Never invest in an LDAP property whose workings you do not fully comprehend ' .

This would furnish the opportunity for the Airport to invest in escalator access directly from the passenger concourse to the station concourse.

To build a metropolis, players must invest in city improvements.

I was unwilling to invest even the requested $ 4.95 to succeed in my mission.

Understand the purpose of bonds and how to buy them before you invest your time and money in this type of investment.

Prospective teenage models should seriously consider all facets of a modeling career before they invest their time in this choice.

Many were made of a delicate fabric, but if you can find one that suits you, you should invest in a custom remake of the dress in a modern fabric.

At just a handful of dollars each, it's possible to invest in a veritable rainbow of colors without causing your bank account any pain!

Staying comfortable and warm is imperative when chilly weather arrives, so it's wise to invest in a wool women's coat size 24 - it will serve a functional need while keeping you stylish!

This is a great place to invest in a classic, timeless suit that you will wear for years.

It helps to invest in a styling brush that adds shine and prevents breakage.

If your child enjoys the computer, you may want to invest in a membership to a site such as Time4Learning, where your child can complete online, interactive worksheets that are scored immediately.

By the 29th of October all the British forces at the front and their reinforcements had fallen in on Ladysmith, which the Transvaalers on the north and east and the Free Staters on the west side began to invest.

The uncomfortable figure in the Bodleian Library does not give much help. Sir John Malcolm has been at some pains to invest his portrait of Timur with individuality.

The power of making appointments to the administrative service would invest him with a vast influence but for the constitutional requirement of securing the consent of the Senate to the more important appointments made.

She married in her seventeenth year a man very much her senior, Nicephore Blavatsky, a Russian official in Caucasia, from whom she was separated after a few months; in later days, when seeking to invest herself with a halo of virginity, she described the marriage as a nominal one.

By a bold march across Flanders, Maurice reached Nieuport on the 1st of July, and proceeded to invest it.

The founders of the school sought to invest their doctrines with the halo of tradition by ascribing them to Pythagoras and Plato, and there is no reason to accuse them of insincerity.

She therefore took up the cause of Duke Frederick, and under her influence a small majority of the federal diet decided to iequest the two powers to invest him with the sovereignty of Holstein.

When pederasty became common in Greece, an attempt was made to justify it and invest it with dignity by referring to the rape of the beautiful boy by Zeus; in Crete, where the love of boys was reduced to a system, Minos, the primitive ruler and law-giver, was said to have been the ravisher of Ganymede.

The final struggle was postponed until 1760, when Colonel (afterwards Sir Eyre) Coote won the decisive victory of Wandiwash over the French general Lally, and proceeded to invest Pondicherry, which was starved into capitulation in January 1761.

In the same year he brought to an end the investiture struggle in England, in which Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, had been engaged with King Henry I., by retaining himself exclusive right to invest with the ring and crozier, but recognizing the royal nomination .to vacate benefices and oath of fealty for temporal domains.

See, for further history, Herod; Jews.4 Although but little is known of the inhabitants of Edom, their close relationship to Judah and their kinship with the surrounding tribes invest them with particular interest.

Oyster culture can evidently be carried on only by private enterprise, and the problem for legislation to solve is how to give such rights of property upon those shores which are favourable to oyster culture as may encourage competent persons to invest their money in that undertaking.

Moreover, the site constituted a natural citadel, difficult to approach or to invest, and an almost impregnable refuge in the hour of defeat, within which broken forces might rally to retrieve disaster.

Large herds of cattle are kept by the Fula, and in cattle rich natives usually invest their wealth.

There was always the tendency for clerics in such cases to invest their sons with the temporalities of the Church; and the poonani synod convened by Benedict VIII.

To Gregory it was intolerable that a layman, whether emperor, king or baron, should invest a churchman with the emblems of spiritual office; ecclesiastical investiture should come only from ecclesiastics.

He was reluctant to invest in a venture that has a slow turnover.