Financial vs Investment - What's the difference?
financial | investment |
Related to finances.
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The act of investing, or state of being invested.
(finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
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, title= That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
* (William Shakespeare)
(military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
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A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.
As an adjective financial
is related to finances.As a noun investment is
the act of investing, or state of being invested.financial
English
Adjective
(-)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Usage notes
Not to be confused with (fiscal), which means more narrowly “pertaining to a treasury, particularly to government spending and revenue”, rather than to money generally.Derived terms
* financial market * financial year * financial regulationSee also
* fiscalinvestment
English
(wikipedia investment)Noun
(en noun)- An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
- Whose white investments figure innocence.
- The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments .