Interests (IPA: /ˈɪntɝəsts/, /ˈɪntɝɪsts/, /ˈɪntɹəsts/, /ˈɪntɹɪsts/)
| Interest (n.) |
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. |
| Interest (n.) |
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally. |
| Interest (n.) |
To cause or permit to share. |
| Interest (n.) |
Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern. |
| Interest (n.) |
Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks. |
| Interest (n.) |
Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit. |
| Interest (n.) |
Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars. |
| Interest (n.) |
Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered. |
| Interest (n.) |
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest. |
| Interest |
Fee paid by the debtor to the creditor for temporarily borrowed capital |
| Interest |
Emotion |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become." - Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses." - Law |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Here the two great interests IMPERIUM ET LIBERTAS, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other." - Politics |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share." - Cyril Connolly |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "If children have interests then education happens." - Arthur C. Clarke |
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