n. That with which a person or thing is invested or covered; clothing; vestment; covering.n. The act of investing, or the state of being invested, as with a right, office, or attribute; endowment; investiture.n. A surrounding or hemming in; blockade of the avenues of ingress and egress, as for the besieging of a town or fortress; inclosure by armed force or other obstruction.n. An investing of money or capital; expenditure for profit or future benefit; a placing or conversion of capital in a way intended to secure income or profit from its employment: as, an investment in active business, or in stocks, land, or the like; to make safe investment of one's principal.n. That which is invested; money or capital laid out for the purpose of producing profit or benefit.n. That in which money is laid out or invested: as, land is the safest investment.