Investor

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] (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. […]””

“Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install⟳ devices that until recently they had little interest⟳ in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."”

“So investors buy⟳ stablecoins not to make⟳ a profit but instead as a place⟳ to store money within the cryptocurrency infrastructure and to use⟳ when buying and selling other crypto assets. […] For example, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission asserted that for nearly four years Tether did not fully back its stablecoin with US dollars, meaning it did not have⟳ enough US dollars on hand to pay⟳ back every investor who potentially might cash out their Tether stablecoins.”

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