0 past simple and past participle of invest
1 to put money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage:
The professional community had already broadly invested in peer review, pharmaco-therapeutic consultations, education and training, consensus building, and guidelines.
The great amount of work invested in the study goes virtually unheralded, with just an occasional remark giving the game away.
For one, opera studies is deeply invested in theories of vocal disembodiment.
The monetary value of the vegetables harvested is higher than the money invested by the plot owner.
In particular, they were invested with a major pedagogical role concerning spiritual matters inside the household.
Reflexive analysis may be invested with critical and emancipatory potential, but there a re many problems with how it has been applied in practice.
Unfortunately, health policy analysts have been so invested in refining models of regulated competition that alternative models for organizing health care transactions are less developed.
Even many of those described as "industrialists" had invested in land, and were thus deprived of an important part of their assets.
