·noun That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
II. Investment ·noun The act of investing, or the state of being invested.
III. Investment ·noun The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
IV. Investment ·noun The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.