Usually means: Allocate resources expecting future benefit.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. invest: Merriam-Webster
  2. invest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. invest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. invest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. invest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Invest, invest: Wordnik
  7. invest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. invest: Wiktionary
  9. invest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. invest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. invest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. invest: Dictionary.com
  13. invest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. invest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. INVEST (mnemonic), Invest (disambiguation), Invest (meteorology), Invest (military), Invest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Invest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. invest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. invest: Rhymezone
  19. invest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. invest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. invest: FreeDictionary.org
  22. invest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. invest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. invest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. invest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. invest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. invest: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. invest: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Invest: Inflation Glossary
  8. invest: Legal dictionary
  9. invest: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. invest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Invest: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. invest: Medical dictionary
  6. Invest: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVEST: Acronym Finder
  2. invest: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Invest: National Hurrican Center

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See investable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
verb:  To envelop, wrap, cover.
verb:  To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
verb:  To ceremonially install someone in some office.
verb:  To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
verb:  To formally give (power or authority).
verb:  To surround, accompany, or attend.
verb:  To lay siege to.
verb:  (intransitive) To make investments.
verb:  (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
verb:  (intransitive) To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.
verb:  (Spanish politics) To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.
noun:  (meteorology) A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.

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