interest
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɪntəɹɪst/, /ˈɪntɹɪst/
- (GA) IPA: /ˈɪntəɹəst/, /ˈɪntɹəst/, /ˈɪntəɹɛst/, /ˈɪntɹɛst/, /ˈɪntəɹst/
interest (uncountable)
- (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. [from earlier 16th c.]
- Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
- (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- 1597, William Shakespeare, ''Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:
- You shall have your desires with interest
- 1597, William Shakespeare, ''Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:
- (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
- He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
- (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.
- 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.
- I have business interests in South Africa.
- (countable) Something or someone one is interested in.
- Lexicography is one of my interests.
- Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
- The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor.
- (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
- The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
- (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- 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?
- (usually, in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
- the iron interest; the cotton interest
- (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed) cost of money, oker
- French: intérêt
- German: Interesse
- Italian: interesse
- Portuguese: interesse
- Russian: интере́с
- Spanish: interés
- French: intérêt
- Italian: interesse, attenzione
- Portuguese: interesse
- Russian: интере́с
- Spanish: interés
interest (interests, present participle interesting; past and past participle interested)
- 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.
- (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
- Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
- (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
- 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.
- French: intéresser
- German: interessieren
- Italian: interessare, attrarre
- Portuguese: interessar
- Russian: (transitive) интересова́ть
- Spanish: interesar
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