Investmentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛstmənt/, /ɪnˈvɛsmənt/

名詞

investment (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 investments)

1. The act of investing, or state of being invested.

   Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment.

2. (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.

   Antonym: divestment

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:

     An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.

   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. […] The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

3. (obsolete) A vestment.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Whose white investments figure innocence.

4. (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
   • 1875, John Howard Hinton, History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement

     the investment of the fort

5. A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.