interest

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.Examples: "Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%."Synonyms: cost of money, okeruncountableusually

2. (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalentExamples: "You shall have your desires with interest"uncountableusually

3. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.Examples: "He has a lot of interest in vintage cars."; "I have a lot of interest in doing online coding."; "The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy."uncountableusually

4. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.Examples: "[…] 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."; "Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way."; "Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion.""uncountableusually

5. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.Examples: "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 (competing interests)."; "I have business interests in South Africa."; "She has an interest in the proceedings, and all stakeholders' interests must be protected."countableusually

6. (countable) Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.Examples: "Lexicography is one of my interests."; "Victorian furniture is an interest of mine."; "The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor."countableusually