investments
investments — noun
1. amounts of money, time, or effort that someone puts into a project, business, or
amounts of money, time, or effort that someone puts into a project, business, or activity in the hope of gaining a benefit, profit, or other valuable result later on
Ada moved most of her investments into safer government bonds last year.
collocation: move investments into [asset type]
The Watanabe family lost a lot of money on bad property investments during the 2008 crash.
collocation: bad / risky investments
For Élise, long library hours and weekend classes were investments in her future career.
Camila's small monthly investments in the tech fund grew quickly over five years.
Many of David's early investments lost value when the local factory shut down.
- holdings
specifically the assets (shares, property) someone owns, not the act of buying them
- stakes
shares of ownership in a business, usually with influence implied
- contributions
wider sense — money or effort given, not always expecting financial return
- divestments
the opposite act — selling off assets rather than acquiring them
- withdrawals
removing money from an account or fund, undoing an investment
文法句型
investments in [thing/area]
make investments
investments + return/profit/loss
用法筆記
Plural form covers both the act of investing repeatedly and the specific assets or efforts themselves; choose 'investment' (singular) when naming a single deal or amount, and 'investments' when grouping several together or talking about a portfolio.