Meaning & use
investible
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Meaning
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Suitable or available to put money into in the hope of making a profit.
Grammar: Can sit before a noun (an investible fund) or after a linking verb (the market is investible).
Patterns
- investible for someone
The fund only buys investible companies listed on major exchanges.
Many analysts consider the region investible again after the reforms.
Small start-ups are often not investible for large pension funds.
Word forms
| comparative | more investible |
|---|---|
| superlative | most investible |
Common combinations
- investible assets
- She has about two million dollars in investible assets.
- investible market
- The investible market for green bonds is growing.
- investible universe
- The manager narrowed the investible universe to fifty firms.
- highly investible
- Analysts called the sector highly investible.
Synonyms and how they differ
- investable
- Investable is the more common spelling and means exactly the same.
- viable
- Viable means workable in general and is not specifically about putting money in.
- profitable
- Profitable describes something that earns money, whereas investible only says you can put money in.
Opposites
Word family
- invest verb
- to put money into something for profit
- investment noun
- money put in, or the act of doing so
- investor noun
- a person who invests
- investibility noun
- the quality of being worth investing in
Commonly confused: investible or investigable?
investible vs investigable
Investigable means able to be examined or looked into, not able to take money.
Practice
After the political crisis, many funds decided the country was no longer ____.
Choose one answer.
Investible means suitable for putting money into. Invisible sounds similar but is about not being seen.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “investible”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.