Meaning & use
investee company
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Meanings
nouncountablebusinessfinance
A company in which another person or organization has put money, usually by buying shares in it.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'an investee company' or 'several investee companies'.
Patterns
- an investee company of someone/something
- invest in an investee company
- a list of investee companies
The fund holds shares in twelve investee companies across Asia.
Each investee company must send its accounts to the investor every year.
She was appointed to the board of an investee company last spring.
nouncountablebusinessfinance
A business that receives money from a larger investor and is therefore partly controlled or watched by it.
Grammar: Often used after 'the' when both sides already know which company is meant: 'the investee company reported strong growth'.
Patterns
- the investee company reported something
- an investee company receives funding
- support an investee company
The investee company used the new funding to open two more factories.
Investors often give advice to the investee company without running it day to day.
When the investee company failed, the parent lost most of its money.
Word forms
| plural | investee companies |
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Common combinations
- an investee company
- They bought a small stake in an investee company in Vietnam.
- investee company shares
- Investee company shares rose sharply after the announcement.
- a portfolio of investee companies
- The venture fund manages a portfolio of thirty investee companies.
- the investee company's board
- Two partners from the fund joined the investee company's board.
- hold an interest in an investee company
- The group holds a 40% interest in an investee company in Brazil.
Synonyms and how they differ
- portfolio company
- Very close in meaning, but it is used mainly by private-equity and venture-capital firms for companies they own part of.
- subsidiary
- Use this when the larger company controls the smaller one completely or owns most of it; an investee company may only be partly owned.
- affiliate
- A looser word for a company linked to another one; it does not necessarily mean money has been invested.
Opposites
Word family
- invest verb
- to put money into something to make a profit
- investment noun
- money that is put into a business or project
- investor noun
- a person or organization that puts money into a business
- investee noun
- the person or organization that receives the investment
Commonly confused: investee company or investor?
investee company vs investor
An investor gives the money; an investee company receives it. They are the two opposite sides of the same deal.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'investee company' correctly?
Choose one answer.
An investee company is the business that receives the investment, so a bank can lend to or invest in it. Option 1 wrongly makes the investee company the one giving money, and options 2 and 3 treat it as a person or a place of work, which it is not.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “investee company”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.