invest

invest
v
1. put money
to use, put money into, sink money into (all of money) advance, pay or lay out, risk, venture; provide money or capital for, fund, subsidize, back or support financially, patronize
2. spend, expend, disburse, Inf. put out, give, offer, contribute, use, devote, donate; furnish, supply, provide, arm, gird, equip, accouter; prepare, ready, outfit, fit out, rig
out, set up, fix up.
3. endow, give, entrust, vest, confer, bestow, grant; empower, enable, make possible, privilege; authorize, license, sanction
4. install, induct, initiate, Rare. auspicate; instate, in augurate, swear in, administer the oath of office; establish, chair, seat; crown, enthrone; frock, Eccles. ordain
5. clothe, attire, apparel, dress, garb, vest, robe, enrobe, gown; deck
out, array, Archaic. bedight, adorn; enwrap, envelop, muffle, enfold, swathe; overspread, cover, drape, shroud, sheathe
6. enclose, confine, hedge, pen in, hem in, beset; circle, encircle, circumscribe, compass, encompass, environ, form a ring around, gird, girdle, engird; surround, crowd around, crowd in on, beseige, lay seige to, beleaguer

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