Investment (disambiguation)
# Investment (disambiguation)

Investment is time, energy, or matter spent in the hope of future benefits actualized within a specified date or time frame.

Investment may also refer to:

## Economics

* Investment (macroeconomics)
* Fixed investment, investment in physical assets such as machinery, land, buildings, installations, vehicles, or technology
* Inventory investment, the accumulation of unsold goods

## Other uses

* Investment (military), the military tactic of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape
* Investment (film), a 2013 Marathi film
* Investment casting, an industrial process based on and also called lost-wax casting, one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques
* Invest (meteorology), short for Investigative area, a designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for tropical cyclone development
* Cathexis, also known as investment, a psychoanalytic term describing an investment of libido
