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Investment Buy Describe Task Cheaply Efficiently Time I

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If you describe something you buy as an i_________, you mean that it will be useful, especially because it will help you to do a task more cheaply or efficiently.If you describe something you buy as an investment, you mean that it will be useful, especially because it will help you to do a task more cheaply or efficiently.
When selecting boots, fine, quality leather will be a wise investment.
Theatre membership can be a good investment.
word investment
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noun
Investment is the activity of investing money.
He said the government must introduce tax incentives to encourage investment.
One of the most important changes concerns the investment of pension contributions.
...investment bankers.
An investment is an amount of money that you invest, or the thing that you invest it in.
...an investment of twenty-eight million pounds.
You'll be able to earn an average rate of return of 8% on your investments.
...people's desire to buy a house as an investment.
Total foreign investment in America still constitutes only about 5% of U.S. assets.
If you describe something you buy as an investment, you mean that it will be useful, especially because it will help you to do a task more cheaply or efficiently.
When selecting boots, fine, quality leather will be a wise investment.
Theatre membership can be a good investment.
Investment of time or effort is the spending of time or effort on something in order to make it a success .
I worry about this big investment of time and effort.
inflections investments
cefr-level B2

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