investor

See also: Investor

English

Etymology

invest + -or

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/
    • (file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛs.tɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Noun

investor (plural investors)

  1. A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
    • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
      [] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
    • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
      Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

Derived terms

Descendants

  • German: Investor
  • Polish: inwestor
  • Russian: инве́стор (invéstor)

Translations

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɪnvɛstor]

Noun

investor m

  1. investor

Declension

Further reading

  • investor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • investor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪn.ˈvɛs.tɔr/
  • Rhymes: -tɔr, -ɔr, -r
  • Hyphenation: in‧ves‧tor

Noun

investor (plural investor-investor, first-person possessive investorku, second-person possessive investormu, third-person possessive investornya)

  1. investor

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • investor aktif
  • investor besar
  • investor kecil
  • investor pasif
  • investor publik
  • investor tidak langsung

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorer, definite plural investorene)

  1. an investor

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

investor m (definite singular investoren, indefinite plural investorar, definite plural investorane)

  1. an investor

References

Tatar

Noun

investor

  1. Latin spelling of инвестор (inwestor)

Declension

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