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Invest vs Favour - What's the difference?

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Invest is a related term of favour.


As verbs the difference between invest and favour

is that invest is (dated) to clothe or wrap (with garments) while favour is .

As nouns the difference between invest and favour

is that invest is (meteorology) an unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system

Anagrams

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favour

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1611 , :
    • "And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured , the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." —
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

    Usage notes

    * is the standard American spelling, and an alternative in Canada. ----