Talk:investmentship

RFV discussion: May–July 2017
"A hybrid of an investment and a sponsorship where the sponsor gets a financial return on their sponsorship as if it were an investment." Equinox ◑ 18:23, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I think it is a commercial company / website. Probably best to delete it. SemperBlotto (talk) 18:24, 28 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Three cites have been added but we need to confirm that they have this meaning, and are not e.g. rare errors for "investment". Equinox ◑ 18:31, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I think all three cites more plausibly support the definition "investment" than the definition in the entry. —Granger (talk · contribs) 18:49, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree that the definitions don't unambiguously support the proffered definition and that "investment" would be a better definition, though I'm not sure that the citations unambiguously support that definition either.
 * This terms seems to be the victim of serial nonce coinage, especially on business websites, usually present as a "blend" of investment and any of a few terms ending in -ship (eg, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, partnership, scholarship). The meaning seems to depend on which of the words is in the "blend". The pattern seems to be to avoid the use of the bare word investment, which seems to be a pejorative in the contexts I've looked at. The idea seems to be to get the investor to not be looking for a mere financial return (which may not be forthcoming any time soon, if ever).
 * I didn't find any dictionary that had the term. DCDuring (talk) 17:31, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 05:50, 21 July 2017 (UTC)