disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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(noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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harvest | (noun) the season for gathering crops | Synonyms: harvest time |
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(noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest home, harvesting |
(noun) the consequence of an effort or activity | - |
(noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: crop |
harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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(noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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investigation | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigating |
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(noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: probe |
investigator | (noun) someone who investigates | - |
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(noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: research worker, researcher |
(noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, police detective, tec |
investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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(noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
investment | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investing |
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(noun) the act of putting on robes or vestments | - |
(noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investiture |
(noun) outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism | - |
(noun) the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result | - |
(noun) money that is invested with an expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment funds |
investor | (noun) someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns | - |
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livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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reinvestment | (noun) a second or subsequent investment in the same thing. | - |
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transvestism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestitism |
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transvestite | (noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
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transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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travesty | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce, farce comedy |
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(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff |
vest | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: singlet, undershirt |
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(noun) a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat | Synonyms: waistcoat |
vestal | (noun) a chaste woman | - |
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vestibule | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby |
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(noun) any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) | - |
vestige | (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, tincture, trace |
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vestiture | (noun) an archaic term for clothing | - |
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vestment | (noun) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy | - |
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vestry | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: sacristy |
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(noun) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church | - |
vestryman | (noun) a man who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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vestrywoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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vesture | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wear, wearable |
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(noun) something that covers or cloaks like a garment | - |