investor
/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/US/ɪnˈvɛs.tɚ/
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investor noun: a person who invests money in order to make a profit.
Noun
investor (plural investors)
- A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
- […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
- Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
investor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
investor in Hindi
- person who invests money in order to make a profit
- विनिधानकर्ता vinidhānkartā, निवेशक niveśak, निवेशकर्ता niveśkartā
investor in Tamil
- மூலதனக்காரர்
investor in Marathi
- गुंतवणूकदार
investor in Urdu
- person who invests money in order to make a profit
- سَرْمایَہ کار sarmāya kār
More languagesFewer languages
- investor in Bengali
- ধনিক
- investor in Telugu
- ఇన్వెస్టర్ invesṭar
- investor in Malayalam
- നിക്ഷേപകൻ nikṣēpakaṉ
- investor in Kannada
- ಹೂಡಿಕೆದಾರರು
- investor in Gujarati
- રોકાણકાર
- investor in Odia
- ନିବେଶକ
- investor in Tagalog
- mamumuhunan
- investor in Arabic
- مُسْتَثْمِر mustaṯmir, مُسْتَثْمِرَة mustaṯmira
- investor in Malay
- pelabur
- investor in Indonesian
- investor
- investor in Thai
- ผู้ลงทุน pûu-long-tun
- investor in Vietnamese
- người đầu tư
- investor in Myanmar
- ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံသူ rang:hni:hmruphnamsu
Examples of investor in a sentence
- Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
- They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.
- The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
Forms of investor
| plural | investors |
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Origin of investor
From invest + -or.
Words formed from investor
Phrases with investor
Words that rhyme with investor
Questions about investor
- What does investor mean?
- Investor means a person who invests money in order to make a profit.
- What is investor in Hindi?
- Investor in Hindi is विनिधानकर्ता (vinidhānkartā), निवेशक (niveśak), निवेशकर्ता (niveśkartā). See Investor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is investor?
- Investor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce investor?
- Investor is pronounced /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of investor?
- The plural of investor is investors.
Words near investor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: investor (page history and authors); investor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); investor (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); investor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఇన్వెస్టర్ (Telugu) (page history and authors); investor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); investor (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); investor (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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