interest
619
3.3
- noun
- /ˈɪntrəst/
- Specialized
:
interés
- If you borrow money, you will need to pay interest based on the loan amount.
- interest rates
- pay interest
- interest payments
And the third highest is interest on government debt repayment.
- And the third highest is interest on government debt repayment.
- However, that's like giving an interest free loan to the government.
- You've just deferred it, maybe with some interest attached, right.
- You are not taxed on those gains, on that interest that you earn.
- Let me tell you how interest only loans work.
- Because a prize rate is not an interest rate, it's your chance of winning.
- But look, we can all see the short interest on the stock.
- The other one is around the tax on interest because it's an important one to know.
- It's just get that number, live off the interest.
- But yeah, Joe did increase the of interest for sure.
- So non interest paying deposits the best kind to have.
- Except the money that you make an interest is bad.
Examples
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In 1985, South Africa stopped paying principal and continued paying only interest on $14 billion of short-term debts.
Academic text (1990) -
Child tried to establish a necessary relationship between the rate of interest and the level of prosperity.
Academic text (1990) -
Why is it OK for them to charge interest just because they can?
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How much interest is being added a month?
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We finance it, and I can write off the interest as well.
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So the question is, how much interest will we earn in two years?
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And that then keeps the interest cost of this spending lower.
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Though the monthly interest will be pretty high.
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We're off twenty points from March, and that was right after we raised interest rates...
Fiction book (1993) -
The fund signs about five loans a year at five percent interest for terms up to five years.
Academic text (1999)
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
415
2.3
The extra money you pay when you borrow or receive when you save each year
- Formal
83
1.9
A situation when someone has two interests that could affect their decisions
76
3.6
A group or organization that tries to influence government decisions to help its own members
- Specialized
33
3.4
A loan or card that charges only a small extra amount for borrowing money
30
3.8
A person or group that benefits from the current situation and tries to keep it
18
3.7
A group of people who try to influence government decisions about one issue
- Specialized
7
3.5
Having more than half the voting shares of a company gives control over its decisions
- Specialized
4
3.1
Extra money added to your savings and then paid again on that amount
3
3.9
A group that tries to influence government decisions often by talking to politicians
- Specialized
3
3.9
Money a company pays for borrowing money recorded as a cost in its accounts
- Formal
1
5.2
A legal right someone already has that cannot be taken away and can be moved to another person
1
6.5
A feeling of wanting a team, person, or cause to win because you care about them
- Specialized
1
4.2
The lowest interest rate banks charge to their best business customers
- Jargon
1
3.5
A small group inside an organization that works on a specific topic or project, not for politics
- Formal
1
7.1
A legal right to get money if a person dies or property is damaged because you would lose money
- Specialized
1
3.4
Extra money added only to the original amount, not to any earlier added money
- Archaic
A way of joining two companies' financial records by adding what they own and what they owe, often avoiding tax
- Formal
A temporary right to property that ends on a set event, for example death or remarriage
A large amount of attention and worry from many people about an event or issue
How High
- Specialized
10
9.8
12
4.2
- Specialized
619
3.3
- Specialized
33
3.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Interest (money) comes from Latin inter- ('between') and esse ('to be') and later meant a payment that 'matters' when money changes hands. So financial interest is the extra money you pay to borrow or the extra you earn when you lend, a charge that concerns the loan.