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Investor vs Traveller - What's the difference?

investor | traveller |

As nouns the difference between investor and traveller

is that investor is while traveller is (ireland) a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in ireland.

investor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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."}}

    traveller

    Alternative forms

    * traveler (US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who travels, especially to distant lands.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • (label) A modern-day gypsy, tinker, caravan dweller, etc.
  • (label) A member of the nomadic ethnic minority.
  • A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
  • (label) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
  • See also

    * backpacker * Irish Traveller * tourist * voyager