Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To invest (capital or earnings) again, especially to invest (income from securities or funds) in additional shares.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To invest anew, with or as with a garment.
- To invest anew, as money or other property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To invest again or anew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
invest again, give another investment.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Only if they "reinvest" by purchasing additional new capital does this 5% capital return result in a 5% increase in capital stock, and thus in GDP.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If you strike it rich, you'll probably "reinvest" your profits in another turn of the wheel.
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Please give me the strength not to "reinvest" it, I need to payoff some bills.
miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2008
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Zellers said businesses will "reinvest" the money they save from lowered taxes.
Politics in Minnesota Charley Shaw 2010
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Chandlers: pirates boast of plans to 'reinvest' ransom in more kidnappings
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Chandlers: pirates boast of plans to 'reinvest' ransom in more kidnappings
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In the absence of investments likely to generate superior returns, an executive committed to shareholder value would not diversify for the sake of diversifying or reinvest in a clearly dissipating franchise, but simply return the money to investors.
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We could, as Friedman suggests, begin to "reinvest in our growth engines" or continue, for example, to have well over half of our research and development devoted to defense, for which the return on investment has been steadily dropping.
Christopher Holshek: End of the Military-Industrial Complex? Christopher Holshek 2011
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We could, as Friedman suggests, begin to "reinvest in our growth engines" or continue, for example, to have well over half of our research and development devoted to defense, for which the return on investment has been steadily dropping.
Christopher Holshek: End of the Military-Industrial Complex? Christopher Holshek 2011
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After an underwhelming campaign and with the club's chief executive, Robert Elstone, already stating funds will again be tight this summer, Everton may have to sanction a high-profile departure for Moyes to reinvest.
Tim Howard remains positive despite season of 'what ifs' for Everton 2011
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