Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

institutional investor

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: in-sti-tu-tion-al in-vestor
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A (usually large) organization that invests (usually large amounts of) money, often on behalf of others for whom it is a fiduciary (such as workers building their savings toward their retirement).

noun

Any of the individual persons whose money is invested by such an organization.

Example Sentences

"The state employees' pension fund is the main institutional investor with a stake in that company."
"This level of risk does not appeal to institutional investors who are worried about a nosedive of their 401(k) balances."

Inflected Forms

institutional investors (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

angel investor venture capitalist

Questions

What does institutional investor mean?: A (usually large) organization that invests (usually large amounts of) money, often on behalf of others for whom it is a fiduciary (such as workers building their savings toward their retirement).

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