INTEREST

noun to cause or permit to share.

2. interest ·noun advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.

3. interest ·noun any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.

4. interest ·noun excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.

5. interest ·noun the persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.

6. interest ·noun premium paid for the use of money, — usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.

7. interest ·noun participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.

8. interest ·noun to be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite;

— often used impersonally.

9. interest ·noun 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.