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Examples of invest

invest
The users of the water invested the communal power with the duty of protecting them against usurpers' efforts to divert the water.
Moreover, human individuals and institutions "invest," metaphorically, or even literally, in other individuals or institutions to enhance their own returns.
The constant represents the expected project yield in capital (per unit invested), net of monitoring costs.
If timber price were to fall by a third, then benefits are still comparable to half the proceeds of logging being invested.
The material world, present or past, is imbued with social structures that people invest with social and symbolic meanings.
The amount of time invested was left to the students' discretion and was recorded.
Risk-free investment pays a fixed anticipated return, and the gain is simply proportional to the amount invested.
They therefore seek to invest economically more efficiently through other vehicles such as public offer funds.
Proposals for egalitarian redistribution are frequently objected to on the grounds that they will undermine incentives to work and invest in human capital.
This is a very small fund, which also has only 2 % invested in equities.
Nine of the self-harvesters believed they invested more cash in the subplot than the value of the harvest yields, and 14 believed they invested less.
In data not shown, older women prove slightly more conservative, investing more in insurance products than men.
Therefore, the model allows estimating farmers' economic advantages from investing in new methods through comparison of the flow of profits overtime under the two regimes.
The access to wage labor enabled a younger generation of men to invest profits into new production regimes and ensure food security.
Unfortunately, health policy analysts have been so invested in refining models of regulated competition that alternative models for organizing health care transactions are less developed.
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