investment

Noun
  1. associated with:
    • bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
    • 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
    is a type of: finance - the commercial activity of providing funds and capital
    subtypes:
    • arbitrage - a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price
    • 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)
    same as: investing
  2. associated with: bear, pay, yield - bring in
    is a type of: assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
    subtypes: speculation, venture - an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
    same as: investment funds
  3. is a type of: commitment, committedness - the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
  4. is a type of: cutis, skin, tegument - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
    subtypes: pellicle - thin protective membrane in some protozoa
  5. is a type of: dressing, grooming - the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
  6. is a type of: promotion - act of raising in rank or position
    same as: investiture

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