investment company

noun

: a company whose primary business is holding securities of other companies purely for investment purposes compare holding company

Examples of investment company in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Png Chin Yee joined Temasek, Singapore’s investment company, in July 2011 and is currently CFO. —

Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024 Acquired in 2017 by Molly and Robert Hardie, co-chairs of the family investment company H7 Holdings, this grand manor reopened in 2021 following a multimillion-dollar renovation. —

Wanda Mann, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024 Elsewhere, real estate investment company Kennedy-Wilson could experience the most significant downside of the group, with the consensus price target implying shares could fall another 22%. —

Samantha Subin,nick Wells, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024 The artworks were the property of both the alliance and the investment company. —

Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for investment company

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1917, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of investment company was circa 1917

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