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Webster 1913 Edition


Investor

In-vest′or

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Noun.
One who invests.

Definition 2024


Investor

Investor

See also: investor

German

Noun

Investor m (genitive Investors, plural Investoren)

  1. investor

Declension

Synonyms

investor

investor

See also: Investor

English

Noun

investor (plural investors)

  1. A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
    • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
      […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. []”
    • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, Japan pockets the subsidy ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
      Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

Translations


Czech

Noun

investor m

  1. investor

Declension


Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorer, definite plural investorene)

  1. an investor

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorar, definite plural investorane)

  1. an investor

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Tatar

Noun

investor

  1. investor

Declension

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