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What does interest mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word interest? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (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.]
  2. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
  3. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  4. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
  5. (countable) Something one is interested in.
  6. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  7. (plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
Verb
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
  2. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
  3. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
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