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PERSONALITY: A consistent pattern of behavior in certain situations. These behavioral tendencies are influenced by both hereditary and environmental factors resulting in individual characteristics. Marketing researchers look for certain personality characteristics that affect patterns of consumer buying behavior.
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INVESTMENT: The sacrifice of current benefits or rewards to pursue an activity with expectations of greater future benefits or rewards. Investment is typically used to mean the purchase of capital by business in anticipation of the profit. By increasing the quantity or quality of resources, investment is a source of economic growth. While investment, in principle is diverse, in practice, the official government measure, as reported by the Department of Commerce, includes businesses' purchases of capital and consumers' purchases of new houses. See also | capital | profit | consumption | resources | economic growth | infrastructure | gross private domestic investment | investment borrowing | business sector |  Recommended Citation:INVESTMENT, AmosWEB GLOSS*arama, http://www.AmosWEB.com, AmosWEB LLC, 2000-2022. [Accessed: May 20, 2022]. AmosWEB Encyclonomic WEB*pedia:Additional information on this term can be found at: WEB*pedia: investment
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UTILITY The satisfaction of wants and needs obtained from the use or consumption of goods and services. The terms utility and satisfaction are, for the most part, used interchangeably in economics. The concept of utility is integral to utility analysis, consumer demand theory, and the microeconomic analysis of consumer behavior and market demand.
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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