v. 25B6; verb
he invested in a cotton mill : PUT/PLOUGH MONEY INTO, provide capital for, fund, back, finance, underwrite; buy into, buy shares in.
they invested £18 million : SPEND, expend, put in, plough in; venture, speculate, risk; informal lay out.
their words were invested with sarcasm : IMBUE, infuse, charge, steep, suffuse, pervade, endow.
the powers invested in the bishop : VEST IN, confer on, bestow on, grant to, entrust to, put in someone's hands.
bishops whom the king had invested : ADMIT TO OFFICE, instate, install, induct, swear in; ordain, crown.
(archaic) invested in the full canonicals of his calling : CLOTHE, attire, dress, garb, robe, deck out, accoutre; archaic apparel.
(archaic) he invested the fort of Arcot : BESIEGE, lay siege to, beleaguer, surround.