Investing
Investing is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management, finance and economics, related to saving or deferring consumption.
The major difference in the use of the term investment between the economics field and the finance field is that economists refer to a real investment (such as a machine or a house), while financial economists refer to a financial asset, such as money that is put into a bank or the market, which may then be used to buy a real asset.