[ɪnˈvɛst], (Verb)

Definitions:
- put (money) into financial schemes, shares, property, or a commercial venture with the expectation of achieving a profit
(e.g: the company is to invest £12 m in its manufacturing site at Linlithglow)

- provide or endow someone or something with (a particular quality or attribute)
(e.g: the passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humour)

- clothe or cover with a garment
(e.g: he stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling)

- surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it
(e.g: Fort Pulaski was invested and captured)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in the senses ‘clothe’, ‘clothe with the insignia of a rank’, and ‘endow with authority’): from French investir or Latin investire, from in- ‘into, upon’ + vestire ‘clothe’ (from vestis ‘clothing’). invest (early 17th century) is influenced by Italian investire