请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 invested
释义

investedadj.

Brit. /ɪnˈvɛstᵻd/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvɛstəd/
Forms: see invest v. and -ed suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: invest v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < invest v. + -ed suffix1.
1. That is or has been invested (in various senses); spec. (of a person) that has been invested with a rank, honour, power, etc.; (of a rank, honour, power, etc.) that has been invested in someone.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > besieged or blockaded
assieged1383
besiegedc1440
ysegede?a1475
sieged1567
invested1582
beleaguered1644
leaguered1720
blockaded1747
1582 A. Golding tr. Ioyful & Royal Entertainment sig. D7v (heading) Their inuested Prince whom they haue most earnestly wished for.
1640 Lively Portrayture Arch-bishops iii. 11 (margin) What was given them was..not of due as an invested title.
1765 W. Brimble Poems 29 By his own invested power, He, Samson like, attacks the tower.
1848 W. S. Kirkes & J. Paget Hand-bk. Physiol. xi. 299 The principal purpose of the serous and synovial membranes is..to facilitate the movements of the invested organ.
1854 Millennial Harbinger Jan. 50 The [Episcopal] Bishop..and his invested Priest that officiated in the morning service, were too like..the Roman Priests, in Papal livery.
1916 Current Hist. June 553/2 Formidable masses of Turks were gathered on both sides of the Tigris below the invested town.
1983 Mod. Age Winter 35/1 To confer this newly invested power on Congress and itself, the Supreme Court revamps the history and objectives of the Thirteenth Amendment.
2004 A. Ayers Archit. Paris iv. 78/2 In 1160, Paris's newly invested bishop, Maurice de Sully, took the eventful decision to replace the city's cathedral.
2.
a. Of money or capital: that has been invested in an asset or assets (such as property, stocks, bonds, etc.), in order to earn income or profit over time. Also of time, effort, etc.: that has been devoted to a purpose expected to prove worthwhile or beneficial.
ΚΠ
1799 S. Glasse in Rep. Soc. for bettering Condition of Poor 2: Pt. i. viii. xlv. 73 All legacies and donations, above one guinea shall be added to the invested fund.
1825 New Times 2 Sept. The invested capital consists of above nine million of Three per Cent. Stock.
1880 Literary World 27 Feb. 139/2 The invested shilling will go to a Charitable Fund for Artists.
1921 Indiana Farmer's Guide 29 Jan. 10/1 What does it [sc. the farmers organization] have beyond sentiment to offer me for my membership and my invested time in its promotion?
1969 G. W. Bohn & C. F. Andrus Cantaloup Breeding (U.S. Dept. Agric. Techn. Bull. No. 1403) 1 New breeding, testing, and selection methods for cantaloups..will..yield greater improvement per unit of invested effort and time.
2012 E. Bergslien Introd. Forensic Geoscience ii. 39 There was no detailed plan of how invested funds were to be used.
b. That has invested (money, time, effort, emotion, etc.) in something; that has a (financial, professional, emotional, etc.) stake or interest in a product, concern, outcome, etc. Chiefly in predicative use with in, as in to be invested in.
ΚΠ
1929 Washington Post 28 Jan. (Sports section) 11/2 (headline) Dempsey now taking risk of $200,000 in..Miami ventures. Former champion is heavily invested in South.
1962 Listener 3 May 763/1 Unless we are mere literary stockbrokers we are not invested in one kind of poetry to the exclusion of others.
1989 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Apr. 87/4 You can't really argue with him about something you're very emotionally invested in because you'll get hurt.
2014 D. Starkman Watchdog that didn't Bark v. 147 By the end of the 1990s..the public was heavily invested in the stock market, with $4 trillion in stock funds, compared to $812 billion in bond funds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1582
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/21 1:49:00