A tendency to value profit over everything else.
The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business.
A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
The act of investing, or state of being invested.
A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.
The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.