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If you i_____ in something useful, you buy it, because it will help you to do something more efficiently or more cheaply.If you invest in something useful, you buy it, because it will help you to do something more efficiently or more cheaply.
The company invested thousands in an electronic order-control system.
The easiest way to make ice cream yourself is to invest in an ice cream machine.
word invest
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If you invest in something, or if you invest a sum of money, you use your money in a way that you hope will increase its value, for example by paying it into a bank, or buying shares or property.
They intend to invest directly in shares.
He invested all our profits in gold shares.
When people buy houses they're investing a lot of money.
When a government or organization invests in something, it gives or lends money for a purpose that it considers useful or profitable .
...the British government's failure to invest in an integrated transport system.
...the European Investment Bank, which invested £100 million in Canary Wharf.
Why does Japan invest, on average, twice as much capital per worker per year than the United States?
If you invest in something useful, you buy it, because it will help you to do something more efficiently or more cheaply.
The company invested thousands in an electronic order-control system.
The easiest way to make ice cream yourself is to invest in an ice cream machine.
If you invest time or energy in something, you spend a lot of time or energy on something that you consider to be useful or likely to be successful .
I would rather invest time in Rebecca than in the kitchen.
If you say that someone or something is invested with a particular quality, you mean that they seem to have that quality.
The buildings are invested with a nation's history.
A tsar was a living icon, invested with deep historical and religious significance.
To invest someone with rights or responsibilities means to give them those rights or responsibilities legally or officially .
The constitution had invested him with certain powers.
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