Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of investing, or the state of being invested. 2. (n.) That with which anyone is invested; a vestment. 3. (n.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. 4. (n.) The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.

Multi-Version Concordance Investment (1 Occurrence) Ecclesiastes 5:14 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand. (See NAS)