intransitive verb. To commit (money or capital) in order to gain a financial return.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To spend or devote for future advantage or benefit.

intransitive verb. To devote morally or psychologically, as to a purpose; commit.

intransitive verb. To endow with authority or power.

intransitive verb. To install in office with ceremony.

intransitive verb. To provide with an enveloping or pervasive quality.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To clothe; adorn.

intransitive verb. To cover completely; envelop.

intransitive verb. To surround with troops or ships; besiege.

intransitive verb. To make investments or an investment.

intransitive verb. To purchase with the expectation of benefit.

To cover with or as if with a garment or vesture; clothe; indue: followed by with, and sometimes in, before the thing covering: opposed to divest.

To clothe or attire with; put on.

To clothe or indue, as with office or authority; hence, to accredit with some quality or attribute; indue by attribution: followed by with: as, to invest a narrative with the charm of romance; to invest a friend with every virtue.

In law, to put in possession of something to be held as a matter of right; instate or install: as, to invest a man with rank, dignity, etc.

To confer; give; vest.

To surround; hem in or about; especially, to surround with hostile intent, or in such a way as to prevent approach or escape; surround with troops, military works, or other barriers; beleaguer.

To employ for some profitable use; convert into some other form of wealth, usually of a more or less permanent nature, as in the purchase of property or shares, or in loans secured by mortgage, etc.: said of money or capital: followed by in: as, to invest one's means in lands or houses, or in bank-stock, government bonds, etc.; to invest large sums in books.

To make an investment: as, to invest in railway shares.

intransitive verb. To make an investment; ; -- usually followed by in.

transitive verb. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in.

transitive verb. To put on.

transitive verb. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck

transitive verb. To surround, accompany, or attend.

transitive verb. To confer; to give.

transitive verb. To inclose; to surround or hem in with troops, so as to intercept reinforcements of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to.

transitive verb. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the view of obtaining an income or profit.

transitive verb. To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that expended, or to achieve a useful pupose.

noun. An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

verb. To clothe or wrap (with garments).

verb. To envelop, wrap, cover.

verb. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.

verb. To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.

verb. To ceremonially install someone in some office.

verb. To formally give someone some power or authority.

verb. To lay siege to.

verb. : To make investments.

verb. To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).

verb. furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

verb. give qualities or abilities to

verb. place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position

verb. provide with power and authority

verb. make an investment

"We went from trickle-down economics to what I call invest and growth -- reduce the deficit, but invest more in our people and technology and in the progress of people in the future, and open the world to trade in American products and services."

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