Collocations for "investment"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "investment" in context.
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investment
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [time, energy, resource, financial, capital] investment
- a [large, significant] time investment
- is the best investment in my portfolio
- consider it an investment
- buying a house is an investment
- a [good, terrible] investment
- is the investment of a lifetime
- an investment for the (family's) future
- are looking for new investments
- make an investment in
- am looking for a good investment
- will take a significant investment of time (to)
- will take a significant [financial, time] investment
- the [project, program, construction] requires further investment
- [further, additional] investment in (cancer research)
- [government, private] investments
- has an investment in the [company, project]
- make an investment to [improve, make]
- make a [large, serious] investment to compete (with)
- a total investment of [$4,000]
- each partner's investment totals [$4,000]
- relies on foreign investment (for)
- investments in the [property, commodities, stock] market
- a good [yield, return] on (the) investment
- the investment yielded a [10%] return
- [a great, an amazing] investment opportunity
- investment banking
- is an investment banker
- proper investment management
- bought an investment property
- investment advice
- an investment fund
'investment' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
accrue
- advice
- advisory
- aggressive
- asset
- bank
- borrow
- capital
- ceiling
- climate
- consistent
- consultant
- corporate
- cow
- currency
- dependent
- direct
- discourage
- draft
- driver
- elsewhere
- equity
- exposed
- feasible
- finance
- foreign
- forward
- fund
- ground
- hedge
- high
- incentive
- income
- initial
- insure
- inward
- large
- lose
- lousy
- lower
- margin
- matching
- merchant
- off
- offshore
- opportunity
- payoff
- percent
- pitch
- pool