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INVESTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit
Synonyms:
investing; investment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("investing" is a kind of...):
finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)
Domain member category:
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investing"):
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))
Derivation:
invest (make an investment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb invest
