INVESTOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("investor" is a kind of...):

capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investor"):

contrarian (an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors)

bear (an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price)

bondholder (a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation)

bull (an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later)

caller (an investor who buys a call option)

depositor (a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution)

lender; loaner (someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters)

rentier (someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments)

shareholder; shareowner; stockholder (someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation)

Derivation:

invest (make an investment)