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reinvestment

reinvestment

12 4.2
Putting money back into the same business or project to make it grow
  • noun
  • /ˌriːɪnˈvɛstmənt/
  • Specialized
: reinversión
  • Investors often prefer reinvestment strategies to maximize the growth of their portfolios.

Those that are above the poverty level are just barely, its water system needs a complete, you know, really complete reinvestment, never mind the lead issue.

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Examples

  • The sooner you make the necessary reinvestments, the more time you have to enjoy the facility you've created.

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  • The $10,000 originally invested provided $12,149.75 after five years of quarterly reinvestment or 3.97% per year.

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  • What we need right now is reinvestment in education, not cuts.

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  • And I bring this up because I basically want to translate one thing, which is that the reinvestment in learning skills never ends.

  • It's natural for owner-doctors who are looking toward retirement to want to scale back reinvestment in their practices.

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  • The real kicker behind the growth in stock portfolios has, for decades, been reinvestment of fat and rising dividends.

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  • Profitability measures whether day-to-day operations generate sufficient revenues to cover expenses and promote reinvestment in the organization's mission.

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  • The positive "spin" noted the substantial reinvestment and housing appreciation (and higher city revenues), and some degree of racial integration.

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  • In addition, the budget requests $250 million for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation's (NRC) grant and training programs.

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  • Many companies allow shareholders to increase their ownership through reinvestment of dividends.

Antonyms

divestment
  • Literature
5 6.0

Selling investments or parts of a company to stop owning them

Surface Forms

reinvestment singular
reinvestments plural

Morphology

reinvestment = reinvest (transparent) = re + invest + ment

This is a standard noun formation from the verb 'reinvest' meaning the act or result of reinvesting.

Etymology

Reinvestment starts with re- meaning 'again' and the part invest meaning 'to put money into something', just like in investment. So reinvestment is putting money back into the same project or asset to help it grow.