INTEREST


Meaning of INTEREST in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

If you have an ~ in something, you want to learn or hear more about it.

There has been a lively ~ in the elections in the last two weeks...

His parents tried to discourage his ~ in music, but he persisted...

Food was of no ~ to her at all.

N-UNCOUNT: also a N

2.

Your ~s are the things that you enjoy doing.

Encourage your child in her ~s and hobbies even if they’re things that you know little about...

N-COUNT

3.

If something ~s you, it attracts your attention so that you want to learn or hear more about it or continue doing it.

That passage ~ed me because it seems to parallel very closely what you’re doing in the novel...

It may ~ you to know that Miss Woods, the housekeeper, witnessed the attack.

VERB: V n, it V n to-inf

4.

If you are trying to persuade someone to buy or do something, you can say that you are trying to ~ them in it.

In the meantime I can’t ~ you in a new car, I suppose?...

VERB: V n in n/-ing

5.

If something is in the ~s of a particular person or group, it will benefit them in some way.

Did those directors act in the best ~s of their club?...

N-COUNT: usu pl, usu in N with poss

6.

You can use ~s to refer to groups of people who you think use their power or money to benefit themselves.

The government accused unnamed ‘foreign ~s’ of inciting the trouble...

N-COUNT: usu pl, supp N

7.

A person or organization that has ~s in a company or in a particular type of business owns shares in this company or this type of business. (BUSINESS)

Disney will retain a 51 percent controlling ~ in the venture.

N-COUNT: usu with supp

8.

If a person, country, or organization has an ~ in a possible event or situation, they want that event or situation to happen because they are likely to benefit from it.

The West has an ~ in promoting democratic forces in Eastern Europe...

N-COUNT: usu N in n/-ing

9.

Interest is extra money that you receive if you have invested a sum of money. Interest is also the extra money that you pay if you have borrowed money or are buying something on credit.

Does your current account pay ~?...

N-UNCOUNT: oft N n

10.

see also ~ed , ~ing , compound ~ , self-~ , vested ~

11.

If you do something in the ~s of a particular result or situation, you do it in order to achieve that result or maintain that situation.

...a call for all businessmen to work together in the ~s of national stability.

to have someone’s ~s at heart: see heart

PHRASE: N inflects, PHR n

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