INTEREST Related Words

possession of controlling influence

a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)

assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

people sharing some social relation

an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

be relevant to

arousing or holding the attention

be of importance or consequence

carry out or participate in an activity

the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)

a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something

any activity that occupies a person's attention

an anxious feeling

something or someone that causes anxiety

inability to capture or hold one's interest

cause to be bored

arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement

a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others

the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins

the attribute of being of interest at the present time

interest and variety and intensity

the quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses

interest calculated on both the principal and the accrued interest

interest paid on the principal alone

funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits

ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares

an interest in a person or thing that will support the issuance of an insurance policy

(law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another

any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation

an interest in property that terminates under specific conditions

the interest in property owned by tenants whereby each tenant has an equal right to enjoy the entire property

an interest in land capable of being inherited

the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation

(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)

(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing

an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying

an auxiliary activity

consume all of one's attention or time

to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

cause to be interested or curious

the collection of rules imposed by authority

the form of a word that is used to denote more than one