Investor vs Investee - What's the difference?
investor | investee |
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= the business entity in which an investment has been made
* "In minority, active investments, an investor acquires common shares of an investee with the intent of exerting significant influence over the investee's activities." [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M72b6tXgT1MC&pg=PT635&dq=investee]
As nouns the difference between investee and investor
is that investee is the business entity in which an investment has been made while investor is a person who invests money in order to make a profit.investor
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(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."}}
