Definition of investment

• n. - The act of investing, or the state of being invested.
• n. - That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
• n. - The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
• n. - The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.