investorin‧vest‧or /ɪnˈvestə $ -ər/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable] 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Foreign investors have shown considerable interest in the venture.
- Having made the initial payment, the investor need make no further effort.
- Most of the venture funds have come from foreign investors.
- Our financial consultants can advise the small investor.
- The British Gas sale attracted 4.5 million applications from small investors.
- But even that market has suffered an attack of investor nerves.
- But few really think like investors.
- In the first few days of trading this year, nervous investors have already punished high-technology companies that have reported disappointing earnings.
- It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity.
- More recently, he managed private partnerships for institutional investors, along with Breazzano.
- That refund policy takes effect for investors as of Feb. 29, it said.
- The approach is attractive to foreign investors.
Longman Language Activatorto put money into a business, in order to make money► invest
Collocations to let a company, business, or bank use your money for a period of time, especially because you expect that you will get back more money than you gave: · I want to invest the money my aunt left me.· The Singapore government is interested in investing abroad.invest in: · Investing in property is no longer as safe as it used to be.· Shares in CMG Information, which invests in Internet-related businesses, declined sharply in the spring.invest £300,000/$400/money etc in something: · I invested £5000 in my brother's printing business.invest heavily (=give a lot of money): · He had invested heavily in risky assets like junk bonds.
► put money into to give money to a company or business in order to help that company develop and be successful, especially because you expect that you will make a profit: · Home-owners who put their money into building society accounts could be losing thousands each year.· The biggest bonus is that KPBS didn't have to put any capital into the project.· The plan calls for each company to put in $100 million toward the new car plant.
► investor someone who puts money into a business, company, or bank in order to make a profit in the future: · Having made the initial payment, the investor need make no further effort.foreign investor: · Foreign investors have shown considerable interest in the venture.· Most of the venture funds have come from foreign investors.small investor (=someone with a small amount to invest): · Our financial consultants can advise the small investor.· The British Gas sale attracted 4.5 million applications from small investors.
► backer someone who supports a business plan by giving or lending money: · Things became even more difficult when one of his principal backers went bankrupt.financial backer: · The directors closed the company after the financial backers pulled out of the operation.
WORD SETS► Financeabove the line, adjectiveabsorption rate, acceptance sampling, accountant, nounaccount balance, accounting, nounaccounting rate of return, accrued cost, accrued income, accumulation unit, acid ratio, actual price, A/D, adjustable peg, nounADR, nounadvancer, nounAER, aftermarket, nounAGI, aging schedule, agio, nounAICPA, allottee, nounallowable, adjectivealternative investment, amortizable, adjectiveannual earnings, annual income, annual value, annuity, nounappraiser, nounappropriate, verbappropriation, nounappropriation account, arb, nounas at, prepositionas of, prepositionasset, nounasset backing, asset shuffling, nounasset stripping, nounasset-stripping, verbasset turnover, asset value per share, Association for Payment Clearing Services, nounassured value, at best, adverbat call, adverbaudit, verbauditor, nounauditor's report, auto-financing, adjectiveaverage stock, backdate, verbbackup withholding, nounbackwardation, nounbad debt recovery, bail-out, nounbalanced fund, balance sheet, nounBaltic Exchange, nounbankroll, nounbase rate, nounbasis point, bed-and-breakfasting, nounbellwether, nounbelow the line, adjectivebeneficial owner, best efforts, adjectivebeta coefficient, nounbid and asked, adjectivebill rate, Black Friday, nounBlack Thursday, nounBlack Tuesday, nounBlack Wednesday, nounblank transfer, bond, nounbond fund, bond premium, bookbuilding, nounbook debt, book entry, book-keeper, nounbook-keeping, nounbottom fisher, nounbought deal, bourse, nounbreakeven, nounbreak-up value, buildings and contents insurance, buoy, verbbuoyancy, nounbuoyant, adjectivebusiness angel, nounbusiness entity, business manager, buyback, nounbuy-in, nounbuying power, buying price, buy limit order, buy order, buyout, nouncabinet bid, callable, adjectivecallable fixture, nouncap and collar, nouncapital appreciation, capital asset pricing model, capital charge, capital dilution, nouncapital equipment, capital flow, nouncapital gain, capital invested, nouncapitalization of reserves, nouncapitalize, verbcapitalized, adjectivecapital movement, nouncapital outlay, capital rationing, nouncapital stock, capital sum, capital surplus, capital transfer, capital value, CAR, carried down, adjectivecarried forward, adjectivecarried over, adjectivecarryback, nouncarryforward, nouncarrying charge, carry-over, nouncash account, cash at bank, nouncash basis, nouncashbook, nouncash column, cash equivalent, cash flow, nouncashless, adjectivecash management, cash price, CBOT, c/d, certificate of deposit, nouncertificate of occupancy, nouncertified public accountant, nounCFO, chain of title, nounChapter 7, nounChartered Financial Consultant, nounchartist, nounchattels real, nounChicago Board Options Exchange, nounChicago Mercantile Exchange, nounChinese wall, nounchurning, nounCISCO, nounclawback, nounclean opinion, nounclearer, nounclearing agent, nounclosed-end, adjectiveclosely held, adjectiveCMA, CME, COGS, collection ratio, Comex, nouncomfort letter, commercial agent, common ownership, company doctor, company limited by guarantee, nouncompany limited by shares, nouncomparables, nouncomparable-store sales, compensate, verbcompensating error, completion date, compound, verbcompound annual rate of return, nouncompound interest, nouncomptroller, nounComptroller and Auditor General, nounComptroller General, nounComptroller of the Currency, nouncompulsory purchase order, concert party, nounconsistency concept, nounconsolidated accounts, consolidator, nounConsols, nouncontango, nouncontinuous inventory, contra account, contra-asset account, contract note, controller, nouncontrol period, conversion premium, cooling-off period, nounco-operative society, corporate investment, cost, verbcost of goods sold, nouncounting-house, nouncoupon sheet, nounCPA, nounCPI, cramdown, nouncredit, nouncredit, verbcredit card payment, credit facility, creditor turnover rate, nouncredit quality, credit repair, credit standing, credit status, creeping control, CREST, nouncurrency pair, nouncurrency peg, nounDaily Official List, nounday book, nounday order, dead cat bounce, death futures, debt capital, debt ratio, decliner, noundeed of conveyance, noundeferred credits, noundeferred income, deferred share, degearing, noundeleverage, noundelinquent tax certificate, delivery date, demand note, dematerialize, verbdemonetize, verbdemutualize, verbdenominated, adjectivedeposit certificate, depository institution, deposit protection fund, noundepreciable life, depreciation account, deprival value, derivative lease, direct exchange, direct investment, direct labour, directors register, discount brokerage, discount loan, discretionary account, discretionary order, discretionary spending, diversifieds, noundivestment, nounDJIA, dollar-cost averaging, noundollars-and-cents, adjectivedomestic investment, double declining balance, double-witching, noundown payment, noundowntick, nounDPS, drawdown, noundrawing account, dual capacity, noundual listing, due, adjectivedue diligence, earn, verbEasdaq, nouneconomic, adjectiveeffective rate, emissions unit, encash, verbequity, nounequity investment, ERM, nounerror of commission, nounerror of omission, nounerror of posting, nounerror of principle, nounethical investment, Euribor, nounEuro.NM, nounEuropean interbank offered rate, exceptionals, nounexchange arbitrage, exchange of contracts, nounex gratia, adjectiveexpense ratio, expiration date, face amount, factor cost, factoring, nounfailure, nounfair value, fand, nounFederal funds, fee absolute, nounfigure, nounfinal accounts, final distribution, finance charge, Financial Accounting Standards Board, nounfinancial investment, financials, nounfinancial services, financial supermarket, financial year, nounfinancier, nounfirst in, first out, nounfirst-quarter, adjectivefixed assets, nounfixed costs, nounfixed-income investment, fixed investment, fixtures and fittings, nounfloater, nounflood insurance, flowback, nounflow of funds, nounfocus list, foreign investment, freehold possession, free movement, nounfriends, nounfront-running, nounfull-year, adjectivefully-subscribed, adjectivefunder, nounfungible, adjectivefutures, nounfuture value, FY, G & A, gainer, noungilts, nounGinnie Mae, nounGLOBEX, nounGNMA, noungolden share, golds, noungood-faith money, government investment, greenshoe, noungross, adjectivegross income, gross investment, group accounts, grubstake, nounguaranty, nounhealth warning, nounhigh end, nounhigh flyer, nounhigh-yield, adjectiveHip, nounholding, nounholding company, nounholdout, nounhomeowner's insurance, home repair, household insurance, idle balance, imprest, nouninactive account, incentive fee, income and expenditure account, income share, incubator space, index-linked, adjectiveindirect exchange, industrials, nouninherit, verbinheritance, nouninjection, nounIN.SECTS, nouninstitutional investment, interest cover, International Monetary Fund, nounInternational Securities Exchange, nouninvest, verbinvestment, nouninvestment income, investor, nouninvestor resistance, issuance, nounissue flop, nounissuer, nounkerb market, key money, large-cap, nounlast in, first out, nounlast sale, leaseback, nounleasehold possession, ledger, nounledger clerk, legal investment, lending rate, nounletter of comfort, nounleverage, verblifecycle cost, LIFO, like-for-like, adjectiveliquidity, nounliquid ratio test, loading, nounloan-to-value ratio, London Clearing House, nounM & A, management charge, mandatory general offer, margin account, market order, material fact, nounmature, adjectivematurity, nounmid-cap, nounMMC, mortgage protection insurance, multiple (share) application, municipals, nounNational Market System, nounNational Savings Stock Register, nounNBV, net, adjectivenet, verbnet 10/eom, adverbnet 30, adverbnet annual value, net asset backing, net asset value, net book value, net income, net interest, net investment, net present value, net realizable value, nominal accounts, nominal price, nominal value, non-payment, nounnon-recurring, adjectivenote issuance facility, NPV, NTA, number-cruncher, nounOEIC, offer for sale, nounoff-market, adjectiveon demand, adverbopen interest, nounopen-market, adjectiveopen outcry, nounoperating income, option, nounoption premium, option pricing model, options contract, order-driven, adjectiveorigination, nounoutflow, nounoutturn, nounoutward investment, overallotment, nounoverborrow, verboverbought, adjectiveovercapitalized, adjectiveovergeared, adjectiveoverissue, nounoverlend, verboverseas investment, overtrade, verbowner-operator, nounP&L, packager, nounpaperchase, nounpar value, pass-through, nounpawn, verbpayables, nounpay and file, nounpaying agent, payout ratio, PDR, pension fund, nounpension plan, nounPE ratio, performance guarantee, permission to build, nounpersonal investment, petrodollars, nounPink Sheets, nounplanning application, plat book, pledgee, nounplot plan, pooling of interests, nounpork bellies, nounportfolio, nounpoundage, nounppd., prelease, verbpremium bond, nounpresale, nounprice-sensitive, adjectiveprimary share, prime-1, nounprime tenant, principal, nounprivate company, private income, nounprivate investment, privately-owned, adjectiveprivate placing, proceeds, nounprofit-taking, nounpro-forma, adjectivepro-forma invoice, prompt date, prompt note, property, nounproperty investment, pro rata, adjectiveprorate, verbpublic investment, publicly-held, adjectivepurchase journal, nounpurchases account, purse, nounp.w., quote-driven, adjectiveramping, nounrandom walk, nounratable, adjectiverateable value, rate of return, nounrating agency, real, adjectivereal accounts, real estate investment, realization concept, nounrebound, verbreceiver, nounreceivership, nounrecoup, verbrecuperate, verbred ink, nounredlining, nounrefunding, nounRegional Stock Exchange, nounregistered stock, REIT, nounremarket, verbREMIC, nounremit, verbremittance, nounrent, verbrental, nounrent-free, adjectiverepatriate, verbrepurchase agreement, research manager, reserve requirement, reserves, nounresidual value, resource, verbresults, nounretainer, nounretirement plan, nounreturn, verbreturn, nounrevenue, nounreverse share split, risk analysis, nounrisk profile, ROA, root of title, royalty payment, ruin, verbsale and repurchase agreement, sales account, sales budget, sales charge, sales returns account, salvage value, nounsame-store sales, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, nounsaving, nounSavings and Loan Association, nounSEATS, nounsecondary shares, second-tier share, securities house, security rating, self-dealing, nounself-liquidating, adjectiveSETS, nounsettlement date, settling day, nounshare application, share exchange offer, share manipulation, share split, shark repellent, nounshelf registration, Ship, nounshort-covering, nounshort-term gain, sinking fund, nounsiphon, verbsliding peg, nounsmall-cap, nounSOX, nounspeculate, verbspeculation, nounspeculative, adjectivespeculative investment, squeeze, verbstk., stockbrokerage, nounstock count, nounstockholding, nounstock parking, nounstock valuation, stop order, straight line, adjectivestructural analysis, sublet, verbsubsidize, verbsubsidy, nounsubvention, nounsum of the digits, nounsundries account, super voting rights, sustainability index, swaption, nounsystematic risk, technical analysis, technical analyst, technical correction, technicals, nountenant at sufferance, nountenant at will, nountenant for years, nountenant in common, nounterm, nountippee, nountipper, nountip sheets, nountotal, verbtrading loss, trading profit, transfer, verbtransfer agent, transfer register, trigger point, triple-A, adjectivetriple-witching, nountrue and fair view, nountrust, nountrust company, trustee, nountrusteeship, nountrust fund, nounturnover ratio, undercapitalized, adjectiveundercharge, verbunderfunded, adjectiveunder-investment, noununderreport, verbundervalued, verbunderwriting power, unearned income, ungeared, adjectiveunitize, verbunit of account, noununsystematic risk, upfront fee, uptick, nounvault cash, vendor placing, Wall Street, war chest, nounweak, adjectiveworking capital, nounwrite-off, nounwritten-down value, yield spread, yield to call, nounyield to maturity, nounYTD, YTM, zaitech, nounZ-score, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► investor confidence
Word family (=that investors have when the economic situation is good)· A fall in the value of shares damages investor confidence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► attractive· Normally rising interest rates will depress the price of gilts by making their fixed interest payments less attractive to investors.· The only hope of raising this money starts with creating a climate of confidence attractive to foreign investors.· For this reason, renewable energy investment was not yet sufficiently attractive to retail investors.· A cut in interest rates can help stocks by making them more attractive to investors than fixed-income securities.· The approach is attractive to foreign investors.
► big· General Electric is Forstmann Little's biggest investor.· Instead of going public, the firm could sell more equity to big investors.· The big investors are taking huge risks in assessing what it will cost to compete successfully.· Such technology recently was the sole domain of analysts, mutual-fund gurus and big investors who could afford such pricey services.· Britain is one of the biggest investors in the United States.· It took big, sophisticated investors to understand it.· A series of meetings are planned to placate big institutional investors.· Even if it did need to raise more capital, it could always sell more equity to big institutional investors.
► domestic· Traders said selling by domestic investors knocked prices back from their midday highs.· Secondly, we are thinking of selling a part of state property to domestic investors who have enough capital to do this.· Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors.· Nomura Securities and Morgan Stanley were appointed to co-ordinate a global offering for both domestic and international investors.
► foreign· The remaining 70 percent would be held in a state ownership fund for foreign investors.· For foreign investors the question is how the game would unfold.· Will foreign investors be put off and jobs be lost if we stay out?· The approach is attractive to foreign investors.· A stronger dollar increases the appeal of Treasuries to foreign investors.· Where profits are declared, tax relief tends to represent an extra bonus rather than a necessary incentive to foreign investors.· In Kuala Lumpur, prices slipped, partly because most foreign investors were sidelined.
► individual· This requirement alone would preclude most individual investors from using such models.· Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.· Everyone, it seems, wants individual investors.· The goal is to make the market much fairer for individual investors.· However, in all countries, individual investors also have an important duty of care.· There are other funds, as well, that practice specific strategies that individual investors can not.· Just under 50 percent will be available for the individual investor if demand warrants.· The principle underlying the programs was that these agencies could better assess and charge for credit quality than individual investors.
► institutional· These warranties are likely to be given both to the equity institutional investors and to Newco.· The salesmen spoke with institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, and savings and loans.· If institutional investors are involved, the buy-out vehicle could be a limited partnership, to afford the institutions limited liability.· Crisscrossing the country, trying to persuade institutional investors to buy mortgage securities, Ranieri bumped into Milken.· There is some evidence that institutional investors are now more prepared to increase the allocations to gilts in their portfolios.· Lower rates are good for bonds because many institutional investors fund their bond purchases by borrowing at shorter maturities.· The main providers of such funds are overseas banks, multinational corporations and institutional investors.· Eaton said large institutional investors today are putting more pressure on publicly traded companies to increase their returns.
► international· Hotels most likely to interest international investors would be those with strong revenue rather than those with development potential.· From wealthy countries, as well as from international investors who are willing to lend the World Bank funds.· The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors.· Most governments, international agencies, investors and lenders will require a detailed feasibility study before deciding to participate.· Nomura Securities and Morgan Stanley were appointed to co-ordinate a global offering for both domestic and international investors.
► large· Merrill is the largest investor in high-yield bonds in the world.· Only a small handful of large investors spoke at the meeting, which was dominated by Conrail employees.· Other approved lenders include many of the large institutional investors.· By the 1990s, large and institutional investors had abandoned the search for security and demanded instead fat returns on investments.· Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters.· It protects lenders and large mortgage investors if the borrower defaults on the mortgage.· He felt that property often required a unit too large for all but the largest institutional investor.· He meets with company executives, attends trade shows, and talks with large investors such as pension funds.
► new· Many societies launch a new-style account and advertise it heavily to pull in thousands of new investors.· By the time it was eventually closed in 1988, new investors had brought the total to £116 million.· To attract new investors and to dodge new regulations, the market became ever more arcane and complex.· Having just mopped up the minority in Siemens-Nixdorf, would Siemens be ready to admit a new investor into the company?· Paramount has been closed to new investors for most of the past decade.
► overseas· Meanwhile an intense marketing campaign will continue to interest overseas investors in the 18.5 percent of the issue earmarked for sale abroad.· There were reports of strong demand from institutional fund managers and private clients, together with interest from overseas investors.· If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors.· In Wellington, stocks fell, though losses were restrained by buying by overseas investors in the forestry sector.
► potential· The House of Lords found that there was no duty of care either to existing shareholders or to potential investors.· Paine Webber brokers often used scripts when they spoke to potential investors.· Roll and Ross argue that these portfolios may have desirable qualities for the potential investor.· That document, Matthews said, will be sent out to a few dozen potential investors by the end of the year.· He cultivated members of the aristocracy and sprinkled them among his company boards to impress potential investors.· But its financial difficulties have deterred potential investors.· The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology, he said.· And how much more attractive the area might then be to potential investor industrialists who appreciate the value of air travel?
► private· At the private investor level, the use of offshore centres is almost limitless.· In addition to the inherited Banrural loans still to be repaid, new debt was encouraged by the state and private investors.· Even private investors of modest means can use offshore centres for tax referral.· She started Space with the help of private investors, former co-workers and a bank credit line.· By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors.· Furthermore, private investors can not trade shares on terms even approaching those available to fund managers.· There is tremendous scope for MBOs to create value, both for parent companies and private equity investors.· The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors.
► small· As this slide goes on, small investors get nervous.· Yet the tape is clearly geared to stirring up small investors to use options.· But one main purpose, protecting the small investor, barely arises with debt securities.· The trend could prove helpful to small investors, especially if the competition helps reduce annual fund expenses.· This is partly because changes in institutional stockholding can make markets highly volatile and therefore risky for smaller investors.· Iomega is a dramatic example of how small investors can work together.· If there is not quite an embarrassment of riches, there is enough to make the small investor blush at the choice.· Letters poured into the Denver fund group thanking it for giving smaller investors a break.
NOUN► confidence· It will take the dotcoms some time before they regain investor confidence.
► protection· The framework for investor protection is shown in Figure 12.3, and outlines the channels of authority. 12.3 OVER-REGULATION?· This means that complete market surveillance is possible and better investor protection is thus also possible.· The deregulation of the capital market brought with it the need for increased investor protection.· The White Paper argued that the existing investor protection laws were outdated and incomplete.· Effective supervision of securities firms of their employees and agents is a foundation of the federal regulatory scheme of investor protection.· These seek to enhance investor protection and promote the integrity of the securities, futures and options markets.· It was the first major and comprehensive revision of investor protection legislation since the mid-1930's.· You might also like to read the section on investor protection at the end of Chapter 5.
VERB► allow· Stakeholders will also be much more flexible as they allow investors to stop and start contributions at any time without penalty.· This would allow investors to factor out inflation before calculating how much money they made on the sale of a particular asset.· Over the long term equities generate much higher returns than bonds, and allow investors to spread risk by diversifying their assets.
► attract· Note that eurobonds are unlikely to attract tax exempt investors such as pension funds, given the lower yield associated with bearer status.· Their steady, reliable earnings growth attracts investors primarily when the economy is growing slowly or not at all.· I was aware that building societies are in the habit of launching new products from time to time, primarily to attract new investors.· To attract new investors and to dodge new regulations, the market became ever more arcane and complex.· Acres of empty office space should attract investors.· Also, utility stocks with their ample dividend yields tend to attract investor attention when rates are low elsewhere.· Set up to provide money for growing companies, the stockmarket failed to attract investors.· Persistent talk of takeovers attracted investors into the banking industry in the last year.
► buy· In Kuala Lumpur, shares scored a 2. 7 % advance, led by heavy buying by institutional investors.· In Wellington, stocks fell, though losses were restrained by buying by overseas investors in the forestry sector.
► expect· A rising yield curve is explained by investors expecting future short-term interest rates to rise, i.e..· The results encouraged investors expecting earnings disappointments because of a slowing economy.· A falling yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term rates to be lower in the future.· The move came just days before the Alameda-based networking company told investors it expected slowing sales for the next few quarters.· However, as this is a riskless hedge the investor should expect to receive the riskless rate of return.· In times of very high interest rates, investors expect to see future short-term rates declining.
► offer· The rights issue is being offered to investors on the basis of two new shares at 12p each for every five held.· Most stakeholder pensions will only offer investors a limited choice of mainstream funds, such as index trackers.· The government may soon offer investors some fiscal carrots to do so.· Index-linked gilts offer investors coupons and redemption values in real terms.· They offer investors federal tax credits -- and, in some cases, matching provincial credits.· Subic would seem to offer foreign investors a lot.
► pay· They pay a fixed income each year and promise to pay investors a set sum on a set date in the future.· Traders say the bond will likely pay investors a coupon rate of 1. 3 percent or 1. 4 percent.· L-P previously paid more attention to investors than it did to customers, employees and the environmental community, he added.· If money is invested, then interest is paid to the investor.· Although put bonds allow a company to pay investors lower interest rates, they can become a problem when they come due.· A pyramid scheme creates the illusion of financial success by paying off early investors with funds provided by later investors.
► sell· Traders said selling by domestic investors knocked prices back from their midday highs.· By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors.
WORD FAMILYnouninvestmentinvestorverbinvest
someone who gives money to a company, business, or bank in order to get a profit