Investment - Financial definition
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Concise definition of the term investment
An investment is the commitment of a certain amount of money for a period of time in order to generate future payments that will compensate the investor for (a) the time the funds are not available, (b) the anticipated rate of inflation, and (c) the uncertainty that the future payments will materialize.