Interest measures the cost of borrowing money from a lender and is usually...

A fee paid for the use of money; a fee paid for a loan; -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.

Money charged to a borrower by a lender for a loan or investment. Also refers to the return earned on funds that have been loaned or invested. The interest rate is normally a percentage of the debt over a period of time.

The money a borrower pays for the ability to borrow from a lender or creditor. Interest is calculated as a percentage of the money borrowed and is paid over a specified time.

Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.

Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.

Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.

an entity formed by advantages, needs, relations, etc. which a person strives to forward either as a principal or sub-interest

Interest is a financial management system for personal investments. Interest can keep and analyze all transactions. It has chart and reporting features, price importing capabilities and a tree-like management of accounts grouped together in portfolios.

The default mortgage interest rates for our calculators

Return, generally expressed in yearly percentage, received for an investment. It can be interpreted in two ways:*Nominal interest: only present in explicit yield securities. It is equivalent to the coupon of the securities.*Effective interest: the rate which equals the invested capital to the current value of all amounts which will be received from the investment in the future. This is, therefore, the best measure of a security's return at the time of purchase.

The return on capital investment.

Any right or ownership in property.

A legal right to property, even if the property is not completely owned.

Any right or share in property.

another term for "right" in the sense of an ownership right.

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.

To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally.

Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern; a desire to learn more about a topic or engage often in an activity.