interest

1. 1

   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.uncountableusually

   • Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
2. 2

   Any excess over and above an exact equivalentuncountableusually

   • You shall have your desires with interest
3. 3

   A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.uncountableusually

   • He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
   • I have a lot of interest in doing online coding.
4. 4

   Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.uncountableusually

   • […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it
   • Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to c
5. 5

   Advantage, welfare, or something that serves it.in-pluraloftenuncountable

   • The whole difference comes down to this, that Trotsky believed himself to 'represent the historical interests of the proletariat', while Stalin believed that he, Stalin, did so.
6. 6

   An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.countableusually

   • When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest (competing interests).
   • I have business interests in South Africa.
7. 7

   Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.countableusually

   • Lexicography is one of my interests.
   • Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
8. 8

   Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.uncountableusually

   • The Conscience indeed is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest: […]
9. 9

   Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.obsoleterareuncountable

   • How can this infinite beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?
10. 10

    The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.in-pluraloftenuncountable

    • the iron interest; the cotton interest

1. 1

   To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.

   • It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
   • Action films don't really interest me.
2. 2

   To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.impersonalobsoleteoften

   • Oh, rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory; since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel; valued least, / I am his equal.
3. 3

   To cause or permit to share.obsolete

   • The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.

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