invest

invest / Çn'vest /v

၁။ ~ (sth ) (in sth / with sb ) ရင်းနှီး မြှုပ်နှံ သည်။ Now is a good time to invest. ❍ The government has invested heavily in oil exploration / the road network. ❍ invest £ 5000 in government bonds ❍ invest (one's savings) with a building society.
၂။ ~ sth (in sth/ doing sth ) ရင်းနှီးသည်။ အရင်းစိုက်သည်။ invest a few hours a week in learning a new language She's invested a lot of emotional energy in that business.
၃။ ~ sb (with sth / as sth ) (fml ) ရာထူး၊ အာဏာ အပ်နှင်းသည်။ The governor has been invested with full authority to act. ❍ Prince Charles was invested as Prince of Wales in 1969. See also INVESTITURE
❑ invest in sth [PHRV ] (infml ) ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံသည်။ I'm thinking of investing in a new car.
❑ investment n
၁။ ~ (in sth ) (က) [U] ငွေရင်းနှီး မြှုပ်နှံခြင်း။ The industry has declined because of a lack of (new / public / private / foreign) investment. ❍ a company's investment plans / strategy. (ခ) ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှု။ Those oil shares were a good investment (ie have been profitable). ❍ I'm hoping for a good return on my investments. (ဂ) ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှု။ an investment of $800 in oil stocks.
၂။ ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှု။ အရင်းအနှီး။ I don't really like the painting; I only bought it as an investment. ❍ A burglar alarm is always a good investment.
❑ investor n ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံသူ။ small investors (ie private individuals) ❍ institutional investors (eg banks or insurance companies).
❑ invest sb / sth with sth [PHRV ] (fml ) ပြည့်ဝသည်။ It was a match heavily invested with drama, courage and skill.