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Meaning of 'investment'
Meaning of 'investment' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Investment 
[ n.]
- The act of investing, or the state of being invested. [ n.]- That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
- The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
- The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.
Meaning of 'investment' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. investment [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result
- the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result
Example in sentence:
- he made an emotional investment in the work;
- this job calls for the investment of some hard thinking
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