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investmentsnounpl. of investment the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or suppliesthe investment of Cuba was one of the decisive moments in the Cuban Missile Crisis beleaguerments, blockades, leaguers, sieges counterblockades(or counter-blockades)containments, encirclements, encompassmentsconfinements, insulations, isolations, quarantines, seclusions, segregations, sequestrationsincarcerations, internments the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organizationthe investment of a new diocesan bishop is typically a grand and solemn occasion |