invest

verb

1. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

   “We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.”

   “The authors predicted that when believers were deeply invested in a world view that had social support, believers would maintain their beliefs even when actual events disproved their worldview.”

   “We did not spend. We invested. [CEO Jeff Housenbold: He's learning!] I invest. Yes, I invested. I invested in a city for the contestants.”

2. (dated, transitive)To clothe or wrap (with garments).

   “He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.”

3. (intransitive, obsolete)To put on (clothing).

   “Cannot find one this girdle to invest!”

4. To envelop, wrap, cover.

   “Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes”

5. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
6. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
7. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

   “Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]”

   “I do invest you jointly with my power.”

   “The Syariah Courts duly constituted under any law in a State and invested with jurisdiction over persons professing the religion of Islam […] are hereby conferred jurisdiction in respect of offences against precepts of the religion of Islam by persons professing that religion which may be prescribed under any written law […]”

8. To formally give (power or authority).

   “For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence.”

9. To surround, accompany, or attend.

   “The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it.”

   “For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.”

10. To lay siege to.

    “to invest a town”

11. (intransitive)To make investments.
12. To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
13. (intransitive)To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.

    “From early on in his career, Zola's work as a critic revealed just how heavily he was invested in the literary “dream of stone.””

    “She knew from watching him grow up that he didn't let that many people too close to him, but once he did, he was invested in that relationship.”

    “We decided that it was because he trusted the core beliefs of the Conservative Party, and he was invested in their vision of change in the NorthWest of England where he comes from.”

14. (Spanish)To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.

    “The outcome also makes it very difficult for Feijóo to become the next PM, because he does not have the support to be invested as such, unless there are changes in the initial positions of key players such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).”

noun

1. A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.