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an amount of money that is invested in order to earn interest that is then paid to someone each year for the rest of their life

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the process of buying things, especially currencies or company shares, in one place and selling them in another at the same time for profit

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a company or investment that makes a lot of money and is safe to invest in

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a document given to someone who invests money in a government or company, promising to pay back the money with interest

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money or property that you use to start a business or invest to earn more money

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a tax that you pay on the profit you get from selling property or from money you have invested

adjective

a capital-intensive business or activity needs to have a lot of money invested in it

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someone who invests money in the opposite way to most other people, for example buying shares in companies that are doing badly, because they think that the situation will change

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an official arrangement with a company in which the company promises to pay a fixed rate of interest on money you have invested in it

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a type of investment that will gain in value if the price of a product changes in an expected way

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the act of taking money out of a particular country, industry, or business, and investing it somewhere else

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the process of selling shares or assets or of taking back money that you have invested

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a reduction in the value of an investment

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money raised for a business by selling shares or by keeping some of the money earned by the business

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an organization in the UK that saves money for people who give small amounts of money regularly

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a financial organization that manages an amount of money by investing it

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someone whose job is managing and investing money for a financial organization

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contracts to buy or sell shares, goods, or currency at an agreed price to be delivered at a time in the future

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gilt-edged investments are considered to be very safe and reliable

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a financial organization that invests money that has a high risk of being lost but which may make a very large profit

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money used in a way that may earn you more money, for example money used for buying property or shares in a company

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an amount of money that is invested

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the process of spending money in order to improve something or make it more successful

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something that you are willing to spend money on now because it will give you benefits in the future

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in the United States, a bank that buys and sells large quantities of securities (=documents showing that someone owns a small part of a company)

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a company whose business is investing the money that it receives from its customers

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a person or organization that invests money

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money that is invested in a country by a person or organization from another country

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a bond that pays a lot of interest but has a high level of risk

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the legal position of having to pay only a limited amount of the debts of a company that you have invested in

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an amount of money that you give a stockbroker to pay for possible losses on money that they invest for you

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if an investment matures, the person who owns it receives back the money that they invested and the interest that it has earned after a fixed period of time

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the time when the interest and profits on money that has been invested must be paid

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Open Ended Investment Company: a company that invests its money in other companies and has no limit on the numbers of its own shares that it can make available for sale

adjective

relating to or involving money invested in another country

to provide money from an amount invested over a period of time

noun

the degree of success of an investment in making money for you

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all the investments that a person or company has made

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money invested in private companies whose shares cannot be bought on the stock exchange

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a document providing details about a business to people who are interested in investing in it

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money that is invested in something to encourage it to develop, or to encourage other people to invest in it

verb

to invest income back into a business instead of taking it as profit

verb

to produce a particular amount of profit on money that has been invested

noun

a profit on money that you have invested

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a situation in which the money earned from investing in something is invested again in a similar thing

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money that you have saved in a bank or invested so that you can use it later

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one of the equal parts of a company that you can buy as a way of investing money

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the practice of selling borrowed securities and then buying them again at a lower price

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interest earned on money that you have invested, calculated once a year on the principal (=the amount of money originally invested)

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the part of a business that you own because you have invested money in it

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a person or company that has invested in a business and owns part of it

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economic policies that involve reducing taxes in order to encourage people to invest more money

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somewhere you can invest your money without having to pay tax on the profits

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someone who gives information about which horse is likely to win a race

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money invested in all of the companies on a particular list

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an arrangement in which a person or an organization manages someone else’s money or property

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money or property that someone manages for a person or an organization according to a legal arrangement

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an organization that manages money or property so that it can help other people or organizations

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an amount of money invested and managed for someone, often a child, by another person or organization

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money that you get from something that you have invested in, for example property or shares

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money invested in a new business that may or may not be successful

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a person or company that invests money in another company in order to prevent it being sold to a larger organization

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