Definition of interest

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Interest (n.) Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit..

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Lionize :: Lionize (v. t.) To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest.
Egoism :: Egoism (n.) Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
Hireling :: Hireling (n.) One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary..
Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc..
Usance :: Usance (v. t.) Interest paid for money; usury.
Survivorship :: Survivor (n.) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything..
Pro Rata :: Pro rata () In proportion; proportionately; according to the share, interest, or liability of each..
Sectionalize :: Sectionalize (v. t.) To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
Self-sacrifice :: Self-sacrifice (n.) The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion..
Calculated :: Calculated (p. p. & a.) Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball..
Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
Divertive :: Divertive (a.) Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..
Funded :: Funded (a.) Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt..
Warm :: Warm (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
Grange :: Grange (n.) An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867..
Statistics :: Statistics (n.) Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement..
Fellow-feeling :: Fellow-feeling (n.) Joint interest.
Privy :: Privy (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party..
Entirety :: Entirety (n.) The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest..
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