invest
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- (transitive & intransitive) If you invest your money, you use your money to make more money.
- IBM may invest new money in the company.
- If you invested heavily in Internet companies in the 90s, you made a lot of money.
- (transitive & intransitive) If you invest in something, you spend time or money to make it better.
- The province has invested $20 million to improve transportation in cities.
- She invested all her spare time to make her small business succeed.
- (transitive) If you invest someone with a power, you give it to them.
- (transitive) If something invests someone with a quality, it makes them appear to have that quality.
- His white hair invested him with a sense of intelligence.