interest : Idioms & Phrases

By"-in`ter*est noun

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1. Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.

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• noun agreement as to goals
  community.
  
  • the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests

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• noun interest calculated on both the principal and the accrued interest
  

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• interest, not only on the original principal, but also on unpaid interest from the time it fell due.
• . See Interest.

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• noun a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests
  

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• noun ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares
  

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• noun income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts)
  EBITDA.
  

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• adjective (used of loans) charging a relatively large percentage of the amount borrowed
  

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• noun an interest in a person or thing that will support the issuance of an insurance policy; an interest in the survival of the insured or in the preservation of the thing that is insured
  

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• noun interest paid on loans
  

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• noun (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims
  interest.
  
  • the iron interests stepped up production

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• noun the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use
  interest rate.
  

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• adjective of financial obligations on which interest is paid
  

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• an estate or interest which lasts during one's life, or the life of another person, but does not pass by inheritance.

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• adjective (used of loans) charging a relatively small percentage of the amount borrowed
  

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• interest at any rate agreed on for money lent upon respondentia and bottomry bonds.

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• noun an accounting method used in the merging of companies; the balance sheets are added together item by item; this method is tax-free
  

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• noun the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings
  

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• noun the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use
  interest rate.
  

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• noun any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation
  

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• noun taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others
  opportunism; expedience; self-seeking.
  
• noun concern for your own interests and welfare
  self-centeredness; egocentrism; egoism; self-concern.
  

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Self`-in"ter*est noun

Definitions

1. Private interest; the interest or advantage of one's self.

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Self`-in"ter*est*ed adjective

Definitions

1. Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.

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• noun interest paid on the principal alone
  

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• interest on the principal sum without interest on overdue interest.

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• noun an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor
  

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• noun an interest in property that terminates under specific conditions
  

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• to produce or gain interest.

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• noun the interest in property owned by tenants whereby each tenant has an equal right to enjoy the entire property
  undivided right.
  

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• noun (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another
  
• noun groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
  

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