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interest is on the Basic English 850 List.
insurance -interest -invention
interest is one of the1000 most commonheadwords.
insure -interest -into
Interest is on theAcademic Vocabulary List.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Singular
interest

Plural
interests

  1. (countable) When someone wants to know more about someone or something or likes someone or something or likes to do something, it can be said that the person has aninterest in them.
    She has a stronginterest in art. She is going to go to an art school.
    What are yourinterests?
  2. (countable) When someone or something is important to a person, or if good things happening to the thing are good for the person, we say that the person has aninterest in them.
    Because I own a house on this street, I have aninterest in keeping the street clean.
    I'm doing this to look after my owninterests.
  3. (uncountable) When someone borrows money, they have to give back more money than they borrowed. The extra money they have to pay is calledinterest.
    Thebank gives me two percentinterest per year on the money in myaccount.

Verb

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Plain form
interest

Third-person singular
interests

Past tense
interested

Past participle
interested

Present participle
interesting

  1. If someone isinterested, they arecurious and want to find out about someone or something.
    I aminterested in researching flowers.
    Doesmathsinterest you?

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