Meaning & use
investee
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Meaning
nouncountablefinancetechnical
A company or organization that receives money from an investor in return for a share of ownership or future profit.
Grammar: Has a plural: investees. Often used before another noun: investee company.
Patterns
- an investee of someone
- an investee company
The fund reports regularly on the progress of each investee.
The investee must provide quarterly accounts to its investors.
As an investee, the start-up gave the fund a seat on its board.
Word forms
| plural | investees |
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Common combinations
- investee company
- The fund holds shares in twenty investee companies.
- monitor an investee
- The bank monitors each investee closely.
- investee and investor
- The agreement protects both the investee and the investor.
- investee's performance
- The investee's performance improved after the funding.
Synonyms and how they differ
- portfolio company
- Portfolio company is the usual term in private equity, while investee is a more general, more formal accounting term.
- recipient
- Recipient is general and could mean receiving anything, while investee specifically means receiving investment.
- target company
- Target company often refers to a business a buyer wants to acquire, whereas an investee has already received investment.
Opposites
Word family
- invest verb
- to put money into something expecting a profit
- investor noun
- a person or organization that invests
- investment noun
- money put into something to gain a profit
- reinvest verb
- to invest earnings again
Commonly confused: investee or investor?
investee vs investor
The investor puts money in, while the investee is the one receiving it.
Practice
In the contract, the fund is the investor and the start-up is the ____.
Choose one answer.
The investee is the company that receives the investment. The start-up cannot also be the investor, which is the tempting repeated word.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “investee”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.