{
  "id": "investment.financial",
  "term": "investment",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "investment",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "put money into thing for benefit later",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "money.economic",
      "risk.uncertainty",
      "benefits.advantage",
      "later.temporal",
      "put.placement"
    ],
    "interaction": "money is put into a thing with risk in anticipation of benefits that emerge later",
    "novel_properties": [
      "delayed return",
      "risk-bearing placement",
      "future-directed allocation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Warren Buffett invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, required decades of funding and planning.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mossad invested years recruiting assets ahead of Operation Bayonet in 1973.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "invest",
    "invested",
    "investing",
    "investment",
    "investments",
    "invests"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'later.temporal' and 'put.placement' to components — they were implied in the definition but missing from the declared components. Definition remains correct and unchanged per preference (1)."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-investment.financial"
}