English Dictionary

interest

/ˈɪntəɹɪst/

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.

I have a lot of interest in photography.

意味（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.

Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.

意味（2）

(uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent

You shall have your desires with interest

意味（3）

(uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.

He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

意味（5）

(countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.

When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest.

意味（6）

(countable) Something or someone one is interested in.

Lexicography is one of my interests.

意味（7）

(uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.

The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.

意味（8）

(obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.

How can this infinite beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?

意味（9）

(usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

the iron interest; the cotton interest