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investor

noun
/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/UK/ɪnˈvɛs.tɚ/CA/ɪnˈves.tə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From invest + -or.

  1. derived from investire
  2. derived from investio
  3. borrowed from investire
  4. borrowed from investir
  5. formed as investor — “invest + -or”

Definitions

  1. A person who invests money in order to make a profit.

    • […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at investor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01investor02money03guarantee04assurance05undoubting06experiencing07undergoing08undergo09bear

A definitional loop anchored at investor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at investor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA