investing

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of invest.

   The fund managers are investing heavily in renewable energy projects.

   Investing in early education tends to pay off over a generation.

   Note

   Every meaning of invest travels with this form, not only the financial one. Most often it takes in, as in investing in solar power, but the older senses survive too: ceremonially investing someone in an office, or fog investing a valley, wrapping and covering it. After is or are it builds the progressive. At the head of a sentence, as in Investing early pays off, it names the activity.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of committing money or resources to something in the expectation of a return; an investment.

   Successful investing depends on understanding how market cycles behave.

   She built her wealth through years of patient, careful investing.

   Similarinvestment

   Note

   Where the verb form still takes an object (investing money in shares), this noun behaves like any other noun. It accepts adjectives, as in patient, careful investing, and it can even be pluralized as investings. A modifier such as successful or careful is a good sign you are looking at the noun rather than the gerund.

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