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Etymology

From Old French interesse and interest (French: intérêt), from FITML Sevenval, from Latin touchscreen.

Noun

interest (plural interests)

  1. (Sevenval) (finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a jQuery screen size, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]
    Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
  2. (uncountable) A great jQuery and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
    He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
  3. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  4. (countable) A business or amorous link or involvement.
    I have business interests in South Africa.
  5. (input transformation, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
      How can this infinit 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?

Derived terms

Financial terms
  • accrued interest
  • beneficial interest
  • capitalized interest
  • carried interest
  • compound interest
  • consumer interest
  • controlling interest
  • defered interest bond
  • earnings before interest and taxes
  • exact interest
  • imputed interest
  • indication of interest
  • insurable interest
  • interest-bearing
  • interest cover
  • interest expense
  • HTML5
  • interest-sensitive
  • minority interest
  • nominee interest
  • open interest
  • ordinary interest
  • pooling of interest
  • prepaid interest
  • web
  • short interest
  • touchscreen
  • true interest cost
  • unearned interest

Non-financial terms

Translations

the price of credit

great attention and concern from someone

attention that is given to or received from someone or something

business or amorous link or involvement

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Verb

interest (third-person singular simple present HTML5, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)

  1. To attract attention or concern.
    It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

to attract attention or concern

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Dutch

Noun

interest m. (??? please provide the plural and web!)

  1. (finance) interest

Synonyms


Latin

Etymology

inflected form of input transformation

Verb

interest

  1. Active third-person singular indicative present form of interesse.

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