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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   invest

   • IPA[inˈvest]

   美式

   • v.
     expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial plans, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture；devote (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result

   • verb: invest, 3rd person present: invests, gerund or present participle: investing, past tense: invested, past participle: invested

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial plans, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture the company is to invest $12 million in its new manufacturing site getting workers to invest in private pension funds 同義詞 put money into, sink money into, lay out money on, plow money into, provide capital for, ... 更多spend money on, fund, back, finance, underwrite, subsidize, support, pay for, buy into, buy shares in, buy/take a stake in, informalget a piece of, splash out on
   • ▪ devote (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result politicians who have invested so much time in the Constitution would be crestfallen 同義詞 spend, expend, lay out, put in, plow in, ... 更多use up, devote, venture, speculate, risk, gamble, contribute, donate, give
   • ▪ informal buy (something) whose usefulness will repay the cost I invested in an expensive moisturizer and tried to drink more water
   • 2. provide or endow someone or something with (a particular quality or attribute) the passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humor 同義詞 imbue, infuse, perfuse, charge, steep, ... 更多saturate, suffuse, pervade, fill, endow
   • ▪ endow someone with (a rank or office) he was invested as Head of State on October 1,1936 同義詞 admit to office, instate, install, induct, swear in, ... 更多ordain, anoint, crown, enthrone
   • ▪ establish a right or power in all executive powers were invested in the Secretary of State 同義詞 vest in, endow in, confer on, bestow on, grant to, ... 更多entrust to, give to, consign to, put in someone's hands
   • 3. archaic clothe or cover with a garment he stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling
   • 4. archaic surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it Fort Pulaski was invested and captured 同義詞 besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset, surround, ... 更多enclose
3. • 更多解釋

   invest

   • IPA[ɪnˈvɛst]

   英式

   • v.
     put (money) into financial schemes, shares, property, or a commercial venture with the ... the company is to invest £12 m in its manufacturing site at Linlithglow getting workers to invest in private pension funds

   Oxford Dictionary