investing (verb)

  • 1buy into — verb buy stocks or shares of a company • Topics: ↑investing, ↑investment • Hypernyms: ↑invest, ↑put, ↑commit, ↑place • Verb Frames …

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  • 2invest — verb ADVERB ▪ aggressively, heavily ▪ The company invested heavily in new technology. ▪ directly ▪ If you invest directly in the stock market potential profits are greater, but so are potential losses …

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  • 3mislead — verb ADVERB ▪ seriously ▪ completely, totally ▪ actively (esp. BrE), deliberately, intentionally ▪ She was accused of deliberately misleading the …

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  • 4kick oneself — verb To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity. Hes still kicking himself for not investing three years ago …

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  • 5break the buck — verb Fall below the value of one dollar per share.<ref name= SM def >“[ …

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  • 6take to the cleaners — verb To take a significant quantity of a persons money or valuables, through gambling, unfavorable investing, fraud, litigation, etc. The judge took me to the cleaners in the divorce ruling …

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  • 7burn one's fingers — verb to harm oneself; to suffer consequences of ones actions. He burned his fingers in the stock market and has been timid about investing ever since …

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  • 8fund — A fiscal and accounting entity with a self balancing set of accounts in which cash and other financial resources, all related liabilities and residual equities, or balances, and charges therein, are recorded and segregated to carry on specific… …

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  • 9invest — in‧vest [ɪnˈvest] verb [intransitive, transitive] FINANCE 1. to buy shares, bonds, property etc in order to make a profit: • People are so pessimistic about the future that they won t invest at the moment. • The Singapore government is interested …

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  • 10invest — [[t]ɪnve̱st[/t]] ♦♦♦ invests, investing, invested 1) VERB If you invest in something, or if you invest a sum of money, you use your money in a way that you hope will increase its value, for example by paying it into a bank, or buying shares or… …

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