Invest

Definition

invest / Çn'vest / v ၁။ ~ ( sth ) ( in sth / with sb ) ရင္းႏီွး ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံ သည္။ 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 ) ရင္းႏီွးသည္။ အရင္းစိုက္သည္။ 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 အပ္ႏွင္းသည္။ 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 ) ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံသည္။ I'm thinking of investing in a new car. ❑ investment n ၁။ ~ ( in sth ) (က) [U] ေငြရင္းႏီွး ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံျခင္း။ The industry has declined because of a lack of (new / public / private / foreign) investment. ❍ a company's investment plans / strategy. (ခ) ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ။ Those oil shares were a good investment (ie have been profitable). ❍ I'm hoping for a good return on my investments. (ဂ) ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ။ an investment of $800 in oil stocks. ၂။ ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ။ အရင္းအႏီွး။ I don't really like the painting; I only bought it as an investment. ❍ A burglar alarm is always a good investment. ❑ investor n ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံသူ။ small investors (ie private individuals) ❍ institutional investors (eg banks or insurance companies). ❑ invest sb / sth with sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ျပည့္ဝသည္။ It was a match heavily invested with drama, courage and skill.

Examples

1. How much do you have to invest?
2. [invest in] : He began investing in the stock market at an early age.
3. [invest something in something] : Banks and private individuals invested £20 million in the scheme.
4. [invest heavily] : We’ve invested heavily in foreign markets.