investment company

Questions about investment company

What does investment company mean?

investment company means "a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies".

What is another word for investment company?

Close synonyms include investment trust, investment firm, fund. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is investment company a common word?

investment company is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.