investment trust

Questions about investment trust

What does investment trust mean?

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

What is another word for investment trust?

Close synonyms include investment company, 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 trust a common word?

investment trust 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.