invested

Meaning

of Invest

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Examples

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow

One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years. William Stanley Jevons

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. William Stanley Jevons

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. Walter Scott

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. Fay Weldon

A pot trader whose fortunes are all invested in her clay pots isn't much of a merchant. Ibo Proverb