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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.
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Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
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Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
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A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
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He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
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Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
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An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
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I have business interests in South Africa.
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Something or someone one is interested in.
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Lexicography is one of my interests.
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Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
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Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
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(usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
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the iron interest; the cotton interest