investment
英 [ɪn'ves(t)m(ə)nt]
美 [ɪn'vɛstmənt]
語源
投資 投资,投入investから、投資する、投入する。
英語の語源
- investment (n.)
- 1590s, "act of putting on vestments" (a sense now found in investiture); later "act of being invested with an office, right, endowment, etc." (1640s); and "surrounding and besieging of a military target" (1811); see invest + -ment. Commercial sense is from 1610s, originally of the finances of the East India Company; general use is from 1740 in the sense of "conversion of money to property in hopes of profit," and by 1837 in the sense "amount of money so invested; property viewed as a vehicle for profit." For evolution of commercial senses, see invest.
例文
- 1. Investment could dry up and that could cause the economy to falter.
- 投資が中断される可能性があり、景気後退を引き起こす可能性があります。
- 2. Investment remains tiny primarily because of the exorbitant cost of land.
- 投資は依然として微々たるものであり、主な原因は土地コストが高すぎることにある。
- 3.He bought an investment property for$100,000 and put down$20,000.
- 彼は10万ドルで投資性不動産を購入し、2万ドルの手付金を支払った。
- 4.The job needs someone with a good track record in investment .
- この仕事は良好な投資実績を持つ人が担当する必要があります。
- 5.Britain 's future as a leading industrial nation depends on investment .
- 主要工業国である英国の将来は投資に依存している。/
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