Maana ya kamusi ya neno "wekeza" ni kuweka pesa, juhudi, wakati, au rasilimali katika kitu kwa matarajio ya kupata faida au faida nyingine katika siku zijazo. Inaweza pia kurejelea kujitolea kwa hatua fulani au shughuli kwa nia ya kupata matokeo yanayotarajiwa. Neno hili mara nyingi hutumika katika muktadha wa fedha na biashara, ambapo hurejelea kitendo cha ununuzi wa mali kama vile hisa, dhamana, au fedha za pande zote kwa lengo la kuleta faida kwenye uwekezaji. Zaidi ya hayo, inaweza pia kutumika kwa maana pana zaidi kurejelea kitendo chochote cha kutoa rasilimali kwa shughuli fulani kwa matarajio ya matokeo chanya.
1. When her father had passed away, she had decided to invest her inheritance in a basement flat under a Georgian-style house in a more central part of London.
2. I spent time going over my portfolio and checking out additional places to invest my money.
3. I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune and I advised him to invest all he had in an annuity.
4. It was agreed that the three millions should be intrusted to Danglars to invest some persons had warned the young man of the circumstances of his future father-in-law, who had of late sustained repeated losses but with sublime disinterestedness and confidence the young man refused to listen, or to express a single doubt to the baron.
5. I brought in actual executives to push the business side, made sub-contractors full-time employees, and hired accountants to invest our income.
6. Or maybe I was going through a new phase whereby I needed to invest in a new wardrobe of clothes.