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noun

investor

CEFR B2

someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns

In a sentence

Six example sentences with investor, each labelled with its topic.

  • The early investor put in forty thousand dollars and sold her stake eleven years later for nearly forty million.

    Finance

  • Every investor in the film took a share of ticket sales instead of a fee, and the gamble paid off.

    Movies

  • No investor would touch the bakery chain until its owners produced three years of audited accounts.

    Business

  • The first investor wrote a cheque for fifty thousand on the strength of a demo that crashed twice during the pitch.

    Startups

  • A foreign investor building a factory brings jobs and know-how, which is why governments compete with tax breaks to attract one.

    Economics

  • The investor bought the unknown painter's entire show, expecting that prices would rise once a museum took notice.

    Art

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