What does investor mean in English?

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investor Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage:
- A New York investor offered to acquire the company's shares for $13 each.
- Small investors (= people who invest only a small amount of money) are hoping that the markets will improve.
1 a person or group of people that puts its money into a business or other organization in order to make a profit:
- Many stock-market investors who wanted to sell couldn’t find any buyers.
2 a person, organization, or country that puts money into something in order to make a profit or receive interest:
- an investor in sth The largest investor in the non-manufacturing sector was the UK.
- a large/major investor
- an institutional/individual/private investor Much of the increase in private investor activity has come through online dealing.
- a foreign/international/overseas investor

There is a 20-day cooling-off period in which the investor can choose to back out of the contract.
They have begun attracting investors, most notably big Japanese financial houses.
The financial crash blackened the image of investment for many small investors.
Stuttering productivity figures over the last two years have made the industry unattractive to investors.
The company was set up to buy and sell shares on behalf of investors.
All those projects are socially desirable and yet unlikely to be spontaneously undertaken by private investors.
If stock markets list predominantly domestic companies, then stock prices should react to domestic policy changes, whether investors are local or international.
Regrettably, they have long induced investors to finance more industrial fishing ships than the fish stocks could possibly sustain.