reinvestmentn.
/ˌriːɪnˈvɛs(t)m(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriᵻnˈvɛstm(ə)nt/ Fresh or renewed investment, investiture, or endowment, esp. of money; an instance of this.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > renewed
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1600 Heroicall Aduentures Knight of Sea v. 50 Her reinvestment, in the gouerment of the Cittie.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Revest, a reinuestment, reinuesture.
1770 Monro against Trustees for Creditors of James Dunlop 9 Every operation of that sort should be recalled, and further reinvestment totally stopped.
1829 H. W. Woolrych Prac. Treat. Commerc. & Mercantile Law iv. 455 They may order the sale of such bills, and a reinvestment in Exchequer bills.
1857 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) I. i. iv. 70 All property..is a part of capital, so soon as it..is set apart for productive reinvestment.
1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 209 The costs incurred in such reinvestment may be charged for according to the scale.
1931 Economist 3 Jan. 25/2 A fair amount of reinvestment business following the heavy dividend disbursements of this week sufficed..to give prices a firm tendency.
1972 A. Plummer London Weavers' Company 1600–1970 xvi. 350 The donor kept a watchful eye upon the trust funds, increasing, from time to time, the income or the capital by judicious sales and reinvestments.
2001 C. Coker Humane Warfare iii. 59 The shareholders have spent the peace dividend for the Cold War and have little enough money left for reinvestment except in technology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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