(v): pay out
(v): give qualities or abilities to
(v): render capable or able for some task
(v): furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
(v): provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
(v): provide with power and authority
(v): put into an office or a position
(v): place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
(v): put into an office or a position
Yard House employee-owners are invested in the future
This is why when we are invested in the outcome, we get so anxious . . .
Hume offered no evidence that any Democrats are "invested in our losing" or "rooting for us to lose" in Iraq.
College men and women are invested in the social and are largely opposed to academic and professorial culture . . .
—Examples from Google of a meaning new to me, and not in the OED. Another dictionary, however, defines it as 'devote morally or psychologically, as to a purpose; commit', giving as example: 'Men of our generation are invested in what they do, women in what we are.'