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compound interests

compound interests is the plural of compound interest.

Meaning of compound interest

Noun

compound interest (usually uncountable, plural compound interests)

  1. (usually) Interest, as on a loan or a bank account, that is calculated on the total on the principal plus accumulated unpaid interest.
    • […] tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

Questions about compound interests

What is compound interests the plural of?
Compound interests is the plural of compound interest.

Words near compound interests in the dictionary

  1. compound householders
  2. compound hyperopia
  3. compound imperative
  4. compound imperatives
  5. compound interest
  6. compound interests
  7. compound interval
  8. compound intervals
  9. compound key
  10. compound keys
  11. compound labour

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