investment opportunity

collocation in English

meaningsofinvestmentandopportunity

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investment
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈvest.mənt/us
/ɪnˈvest.mənt/
the act of putting money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage, or the money, effort, time, etc. used to ...
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opportunity
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.əˈtʃuː.nə.ti/us
/ˌɑː.pɚˈtuː.nə.t̬i/
an occasion or situation that makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of ...
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It is, of course, difficult to predict how these and future changes in theinvestmentopportunityset will influence surplus distribution in the future.
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Initially, the response of private operators to this newinvestmentopportunitywas modest.
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Goods that are neither consumed nor placed into this technology will perish once theinvestmentopportunityhas passed.
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In direct investment, corporations may study aninvestmentopportunityfor ten years and still not take the risk.
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He presents publishing as an entrepreneurial role or "investmentopportunity" rather than a specialized occupation and stresses the need for "versatility".
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State policies, guarantees, and concessions made the export-processing zone an especially attractiveinvestmentopportunity.
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Since there is noinvestmentopportunityin food crop fields, there is no theoretical reason to assume that security of future land rights affects the intensity of cultivation.
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Because fiat money now competes with dynamic insurance contracts as an alternativeinvestmentopportunity, high-income earners (savers) compare the performance of dynamic insurance with that of holding money.
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Equation (2) reflects the assumption that consumption only imposes aninvestmentopportunitycost, in the form of foregone resource accumulation.
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It is easy to be jingoistic, but in terms of "brass" and common sense we have divested ourselves of aninvestmentopportunity.
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Many businesses have serious cash flow difficulties but nevertheless can convince a bank manager or other lender that they present a sensibleinvestmentopportunity.
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That is clearly an appropriateinvestmentopportunityfor a joint venture with private industry involving both oil taxes and profits.
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Certificates of tax deposit provide an attractiveinvestmentopportunityfor companies and private individuals needing to make provision for future tax payments.
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In this project of getting oil from coal, we have a marvellous and uniqueinvestmentopportunity.
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For the banking industry, the principal costs are handling, transport storage, packing and lostinvestmentopportunity.
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They seem to have fallen away a little; some of them do not see the privatisation as theinvestmentopportunityof the year.
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There has to be a profitableinvestmentopportunity.
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The trade unions are normally the first institutions to grasp an excitinginvestmentopportunitywhen they see one.
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They had been selling ostriches as aninvestmentopportunityand had attracted some 2,800 customers.
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First, there has to be profitableinvestmentopportunity.
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