interest
IPA: ˈɪntrʌst
noun
- (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
- (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
- (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
- (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
- (countable) Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
- (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
- (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
- (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
verb
- To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
- (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
- (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
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Examples of "interest" in Sentences
- The nap I took was the most interest part of the game.
- Of the votes to abstain, one expressed an interest in the topic.
- Lots of interest and curiosity in the topic outside of Japanophiles.
- The Holocaust is a very perplexing, and interesting and heartbreaking topic.
- In spite of his lack of interest in games, Mahadev was full of sportsmanship.
- The topic is also interesting in the context of the developing European Union.
- His interest is not in the integrity of the game or improving the officiating.
- Intensely interesting, the interest is in the argument, not in its expression.
- The effective interest is compared with the stated interest of the investment.
- Diatom structures are not just of interest to people interested in tiny objects.
- Its main interest is that it is not supposed to occur in the dog-eat-dog world of Darwinian competition.
- So almost double the number of screens for a sequel with built-in interest from the first movie and -- voila!
- It has become the interest of the planter to make it for the _interest of the people_ to remain on his estate.
- Someone who lends money (or buys a financial asset) and takes in interest is a rentier, not a capitalist. bdbd says:
- I'd rather give the money and control of health care to doctors .. but instead it's going to bureaucrats who's main interest is lining their own pockets.
- After I wrote this, I realized I should have included a second category: people whose main interest is recreational mayhem rather than political ideology.
- "He jocularly observed, on one occasion, to a creditor, who peremptorily required payment of the interest due on a long-standing debt, 'My dear sir, you know it is not my _interest_ to pay the
- It might have been made two or three, or even six times larger, without diminishing from the interest of any one of its pages -- _indeed with an increased interest_ -- but the want of the pecuniary means, and other considerations, have induced me to present it as here seen.
- GOP will have to waite for next 15 years to take control of any house or Presidency, as all hard working American knows that GOP 's main interest is for their own well being not for the average Joe, You all will experiance in next 6 months that Economy will rebound back, Jobs will open up for people and healthcrare reform will be done after that you will see the poll will bounce back.
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