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reinvestment

noun

reinvestment is a noun meaning “The condition of being reinvested” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-N-V-E-S-T-M-E-N-T and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reinvestment is reinvestments.

What does reinvestment mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being reinvested

  2. 2

    A second or subsequent investment in the same thing

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce reinvestment?

    Reinvestment has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of reinvestment

    • reinvestments plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is reinvestment?

    Reinvestment appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does reinvestment come from?

    From re- + investment.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).