Usually means: Allocates resources expecting future gain.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word invests:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. invests: Merriam-Webster
  2. invests: Collins English Dictionary
  3. invests: Vocabulary.com
  4. Invests, invests: Wordnik
  5. invests: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. invests: Wiktionary
  7. invests: Dictionary.com
  8. invests: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. invests: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. invests: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. invests: Legal dictionary
  3. invests: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invests: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. invests: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. invests: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invests: Idioms

(Note: See invest as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (invest)

verb:  To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
verb:  To envelop, wrap, cover.
verb:  To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
verb:  To ceremonially install someone in some office.
verb:  To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
verb:  To formally give (power or authority).
verb:  To surround, accompany, or attend.
verb:  To lay siege to.
verb:  (intransitive) To make investments.
verb:  (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
verb:  (intransitive) To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.
verb:  (Spanish politics) To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.
noun:  (meteorology) A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.
▸ Also see invest


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