(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(2) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(3) But whatever they invested in me, they got in return 10, 20 times more.
(4) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(5) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(6) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
(7) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(8) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(9) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(10) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(11) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
(12) There is no immediate sign that returns on Cuadrilla's investments so far will be quick.
(13) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
(14) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(15) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(16) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(17) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
(18) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(19) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
(20) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
Punt
Definition:
(v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
(n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
(v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
(v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
(n.) The act of punting the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott has punted some key decisions off into a new defence white paper he'll commision if he wins next Saturday.
(2) Brees is sacked by Cliff Avril on third-and-nine, taking his team out of field goal range, and instead Thomas Morstead comes back out to punt.
(3) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(4) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(5) Backed up against his own end zone after a tremendous Anger punt, Ryan Fitzpatrick succeeded in dumping the ball off to Shonn Greene but then found that his team had given up a safety anyway, on account of a holding call against Chance Warmack in the end zone.
(6) Little Defoe was allowed to meet a hopeful punt with his head, mid-way inside the Arsenal half, and flick on the ball to Rafael van der Vaart.
(7) McGuinness added that the republic was better off when it had its own currency, the punt.
(8) 2.01am GMT Florida State 3-0 Auburn, 5:30, 1st quarter And THERE'S CHRIS DAVIS, he returns Guayo's punt for 22 yards to get Auburn to the Florida State 22!
(9) Sports Direct, the retailer run by its mecurial founder Mike Ashley, bought a 4.6% stake in Debenhams on Thursday night, in the company’s latest multimillion pound punt on a rival retailers’ shares.
(10) June 24, 2014 5.46pm BST Half time: Costa Rica 0-0 England 45 mins: A long punt downfield has the England defence in all sorts of trouble.
(11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
(12) Sacked by Dee Ford, AGAIN, for eight yards to force a punt.
(13) Akinfeev's punt upfield caused consternation in a City defence that never seems the same when Vincent Kompany, still sidelined with a thigh injury , is absent.
(14) 3.41am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 0:11 of 4th Quarter On 3rd & 8, Leach runs for a few yards, and the Ravens call time before punting it away.
(15) Chris Davis almost muffs the punt return for Auburn, that's not as dirty as it sounds.
(16) 2.12am GMT And we're back On 3rd & 13, Kaepernick throws short to Walker, short of the first down, and the 49ers punt it into the end zone.
(17) Deep into stoppage time, Allardyce’s defence showed the same nervousness about which he had complained in last weekend’s draw at Stoke, failing to deal either with Cesc Fàbregas’s upfield punt or the header from César Azpilicueta that played in Nemanja Matic who finished neatly past the advancing Mannone.
(18) Panama try a punt forward from a free kick, but it's pretty optimistic and the US cheerfully clear it.
(19) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(20) Doing so would punt the fight over whether to lock in 2014 sequestration levels at $967 billion until December.