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investee

investee noun: the business entity in which an investment is made.

Noun

investee (plural investees)

  1. The business entity in which an investment is made.
    • Many of his investee companies have been found to encourage fraud, regulators have said.
    • In minority active investments, an investor acquires common shares of an investee with the intent of exerting significant influence over the investee's activities.2009, Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 635

Forms of investee

pluralinvestees

Origin of investee

From invest + -ee.

Questions about investee

What does investee mean?
Investee means the business entity in which an investment is made.
What part of speech is investee?
Investee is a noun.
What is the plural of investee?
The plural of investee is investees.

Words near investee in the dictionary

  1. inverzincins
  2. invest
  3. investability
  4. investable
  5. invested
  6. investee
  7. investees
  8. invester
  9. investest
  10. investeth
  11. investibility

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