Word Finder - invests

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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.

Such a rate of increase invests the question of subsistence with great importance.

Paul's lieutenants possess the central deposit of the apostolic faith, and have the duty as well as the right of exercising the authority with which that position invests them.

The imperishable Record invests the human race like a protective atmosphere, a new and yet a natural dispensation, giving to man, as compared with his animal ancestry, a new heaven and a new earth !

Reverent toward the Holy Scriptures, he spoke not as their expositor but with a divine power which invests his words with immediate and full authority.

Another great change in the general aspect of the city has been produced by the erection of stately mosques in the most commanding situations, where dome and minarets and huge rectangular buildings present a combination of mass and slenderness, of rounded lines and soaring pinnacles, which gives to Constantinople an air of unique dignity and grace, and at the same time invests it with the glamour of the oriental world.

The oviducts are long, usually more or less convoluted tubes which open posteriorly into the cloaca, while their anterior aperture is situated far forward, sometimes close to the root of the lung; their walls secrete a gelatinous substance which invests the ova as they descend.

The view here is that the " aware " researcher invests more than mere intellectual curiosity into the subject of his or her research.

He invests the language of the brief chapters of Arthurian myth with a sense of otherness.

While the other standout, as usual, is Clarkson, who invests just the right balance of steely energy and barely reserved emotion.

For the stylish man who buys clothes at decent menswear shops - or invests in custom dress shirts - it is important that the right knot be worn with the right shirt and that it look crisp and sharp.

In addition to producing and distributing products to help patients with apneas and hypoapneas, Resmed also invests six percent of their profits into continued research and development of new Resmed CPAP products and therapies.

Because the average soap opera fan invests much more viewing time into their show than a prime time TV watcher, there is a whole subculture devoted to updates and spoilers.

The insurance company invests the premiums that the individual invests.

The company invests your money for you, which is what generates the payout.

It was brought to the country by the French and became so popular, even a working-class Japanese woman invests in fine lingerie.

Personal appearance is very important to Staub, and she invests a lot of time and money in trying to keep up a youthful look.

Conley currently invests in real estate and works as a sub-contractor.

The duty of teaching and of administering the sacraments and of always presiding in church courts being strictly reserved to him invests his office with a dignity and influence greater than that of the elder.

The perisarc when, present invests the hydrorhiza and hydrocaulus; it may stop short below the hydranth, or it may extend farther.

This close connexion invests the antecedent.

Do not, he said, think that I mean the flesh which invests and covers me, and bid you eat that; nor suppose either that I command you to drink my sensible and somatic blood.

Being in love with someone invests you in that person.