Investment

n. expenditure of money or effort for future benefits; blockade, siege; cover as if with a garment; empowerment, authorization; install in an office, instate

Investment or investing is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management, finance and economics, related to saving or deferring consumption. An asset is usually purchased, or equivalently a deposit is made in a bank, in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it. The word originates in the Latin "vestis", meaning garment, and refers to the act of putting things (money or other claims to resources) into others' pockets.
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Noun
1. the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit
(synonym) investing
(hypernym) finance
(hyponym) arbitrage
(derivation) invest, put, commit, place
(class) bull
2. money that is invested with an expectation of profit
(synonym) investment funds
(hypernym) assets
(hyponym) speculation, venture
(derivation) invest, put, commit, place
(class) yield, pay, bear
3. outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism
(hypernym) skin, tegument, cutis
(hyponym) pellicle
4. the act of putting on robes or vestments
(hypernym) dressing, grooming
5. the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
(synonym) investiture
(hypernym) promotion
(derivation) invest, clothe, adorn

n. investment, expenditure of money or effort for future benefits

(n.)
The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.
  

(n.)
The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
  

(n.)
The act of investing, or the state of being invested.
  

(n.)
That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.