Usually means: Payment for the use of money.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. interest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. interest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. interest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. interest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. interest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Interest, interest: Wordnik
  7. interest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. interest: Wiktionary
  9. interest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. interest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. interest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. interest: Dictionary.com
  13. interest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. interest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Interest (disambiguation), Interest (emotion), Interest (finance), Interest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Interest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. interest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. interest: Rhymezone
  19. interest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. interest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. interest: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. interest: Free Dictionary
  23. interest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. interest: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. interest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Interest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. interest: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. interest: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. interest: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. INTEREST: Accounting Glossary
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Interest: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  11. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Interest: Harvey Financial
  13. Interest: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  14. Interest: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  15. Interest: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  16. interest: Finance-Glossary.com
  17. Credit Terms (No longer online)
  18. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Interest: Inflation Glossary
  20. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  21. Interest: Investopedia
  22. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  23. Interest: Securities Terminology
  24. Interest (economics), Interest (finance), interest: Legal dictionary
  25. Interest (economics), Interest (finance), interest: Financial dictionary
  26. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  27. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  28. Interest: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  29. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Interest (economics), Interest (finance), interest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Interest (economics), Interest (finance), interest: Medical dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. interest: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Interest (in Economics): Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Interest: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. interest: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  4. interest: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. interest: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Interest: Construction Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
noun:  (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
noun:  (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
noun:  (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
noun:  (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
noun:  (countable) Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
noun:  (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
noun:  (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
noun:  (historical, usually attributive) a genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label
verb:  To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
verb:  (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
verb:  (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

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