Investor Meaning
/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who invests money in order to make a profit.
Sentence Examples
The big investor bought up the stocks.
The investor stole the capital of his client.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The startup needed capital to grow, so they found a wealthy ____ who would provide funding.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young entrepreneur is looking for an ____ who can provide the funding he needs to start his company.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *wes- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *wéstis Proto-Italic *westis Latin vestis Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin vestiō Latin investioder. Middle French investirbor. ▲ Latin investioder. Medieval Latin investirebor. English invest Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English investor From invest + -or.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] (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:
"So investors buy stablecoins not to make a profit but instead as a place to store money within the cryptocurrency infrastructure and to use when buying and selling other crypto assets. […] For example, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission asserted that for nearly four years Tether did not fully back its stablecoin with US dollars, meaning it did not have enough US dollars on hand to pay back every investor who potentially might cash out their Tether stablecoins."
— 2021 October 27, Jeanne Sahadi, “How stablecoin is different than other cryptocurrencies … and how it’s not”, in CNN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The startup needed capital to grow, so they found a wealthy ____ who would provide funding.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young entrepreneur is looking for an ____ who can provide the funding he needs to start his company.