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investive

investive adjective: serving or tending to invest, or endow with a right or possession.

Adjective

investive (not comparable)

  1. Serving or tending to invest, or endow with a right or possession.

Origin of investive

From invest + -ive.

Questions about investive

What does investive mean?
Investive means serving or tending to invest, or endow with a right or possession.
What part of speech is investive?
Investive is an adjective.

Words near investive in the dictionary

  1. investion
  2. investitive
  3. investitural
  4. investiture
  5. investitures
  6. investive
  7. investment
  8. investment bank
  9. investment banker
  10. investment bankers
  11. investment banking

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