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How to pronounce “interest”
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Pronunciation guide for interest
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of interest with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank
determine your interest rates so it's
- Definition summary
- (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.]
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How to pronounce interest
San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank
determine your interest rates so it's
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “interest”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (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.]
- (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
- (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.
- (countable) Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
- (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
- (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
- (often in the plural) The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
- (historical, usually attributive) A genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label.
- [Verb]
- To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
- (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
- (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
Practice Nearby Words
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Similar Sounds
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