Investment

1.

Economics.

Expenditure by firms on (or creation by firms of) capital goods and stock to be used for future production or sale.

2.

More generally, the expenditure of money or money's worth with a view to increasing over time the value so invested.

See also

• Aggregate demand
• Asset risk
• Associate
• Cash investing in a new world
• Injection
• Investment Committees
• Investment company
• Investor
• Robo-adviser
• Short-term investments