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Investment is time, energy, or matter spent in the hope of future benefits actualized within a specified date or time frame.
Investment may also refer to:
Economics
- Investment (macroeconomics)
- Fixed investment, investment in physical assets such as machinery, land, buildings, installations, vehicles, or technology
- Inventory investment, the accumulation of unsold goods
Other uses
- Investment (military), the military tactic of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape
- Investment (film), a 2013 Marathi film
- Investment casting, an industrial process based on and also called lost-wax casting, one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques
- Invest (meteorology), short for Investigative area, a designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for tropical cyclone development
- Cathexis, also known as investment, a psychoanalytic term describing an investment of libido
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