Investor vs Backer - What's the difference?
investor | backer |
A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (phonetics) (back)
:: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
English agent nouns
As nouns the difference between investor and backer
is that investor is a person who invests money in order to make a profit while backer is one who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.As an adjective backer is
comparative of back.investor
English
Noun
(en noun)Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
backer
English
Adjective
(head)- Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174: