pastime
interest pursuit | a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly), sailing is her favorite pastime, his main pastime is gambling, he counts reading among his interests, they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits |
| fixed intonation | the intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
read-only memory
ROM
read-only storage
fixed storage | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed |
egoism
egocentrism
self-interest
selfoncern
selfenteredness | concern for your own interests and welfare |
opportunism
self-interest self-seeking
expedience | taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others |
sake
interest | a reason for wanting something done, for your sake, died for the sake of his country, in the interest of safety, in the common interest |
| interest interestingness | the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.), they said nothing of great interest, primary colors can add interest to a room |
| fixed phagocyte | a phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc. |
interest
involvement | a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something, an interest in music |
mantissa
fixed-point part | the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the mantissa is . |
fixed-point notation
fixed-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention |
typewriter font
constant-width font
fixed-width font
monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
interest
interest group | (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims, the iron interests stepped up production |
| special interest | an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor |
| vested interest | groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit |
| fixed star | any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion |
EBITDA
Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization | income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted, an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts) |
| interest expense | interest paid on loans |
| interest stake | (law) a right or legal share of something, a financial involvement with something, they have interests all over the world, a stake in the company's future |
| controlling interest | ownership of more than % of a corporation's voting shares |
| insurable interest | an interest in a person or thing that will support the issuance of an insurance policy, an interest in the survival of the insured or in the preservation of the thing that is insured |
| vested interest | (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another |
| security interest | any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation |
| terminable interest | an interest in property that terminates under specific conditions |
undivided interest
undivided right | the interest in property owned by tenants whereby each tenant has an equal right to enjoy the entire property |
fixed charge
fixed cost
fixed costs | a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.) |
| interest | a fixed charge for borrowing money, usually a percentage of the amount borrowed, how much interest do you pay on your mortgage? |
| compound interest | interest calculated on both the principal and the accrued interest |
| simple interest | interest paid on the principal alone |
interest rate
rate of interest | the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use |
| prime interest rate | the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings |
nondiscretionary trust
fixed investment trust | an investment trust that can buy only those securities listed when the trust was organized |
| pooling of interest | an accounting method used in the merging of companies, the balance sheets are added together item by item, this method is tax-free |
| fixed-point number | a number represented in fixed-point notation |
| conflict of interest | a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests |
fixed oil
fatty oil | nonvolatile animal or plant oil |
| interest | excite the curiosity of, engage the interest of |
| concern interest occupy worry | be on the mind of, I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift |
matter to
interest | be of importance or consequence, This matters to me! |
fixed
frozen | incapable of being changed or moved or undone, e.g. frozen prices, living on fixed incomes |
| fixed | (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value |
| fixed | securely placed or fastened or set, a fixed piece of wood, a fixed resistor |
| low-interest | (used of loans) charging a relatively small percentage of the amount borrowed |
| high-interest | (used of loans) charging a relatively large percentage of the amount borrowed |
fixed
set
rigid | fixed and unmoving, with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare, his bearded face already has a set hollow look- Connor Cruise O'Brien, a face rigid with pain |
comfortable
easy
prosperous
well-fixed
well-heeled
well-off
well-situated
well-to-do | in fortunate circumstances financially, moderately rich, they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards, easy living, a prosperous family, his family is well-situated financially, well-to-do members of the community |
| interest-bearing | of financial obligations on which interest is paid |