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 |
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 |
| average cost | total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units |
| 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 |
interest
involvement | a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something, an interest in music |
| average | an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual, he is about average in height, the snowfall this month is below average |
average
norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution, it set the norm for American homes |
Dow Jones
Dow-Jones Industrial Average | an indicator of stock market prices, based on the share values ofbluehip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing |
earned run average
ERA | (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness, calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched |
grade point average
GPA | a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university, calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted |
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 |
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 |
| rates | a local tax on property (usually used in the plural) |
| poor rates | a local tax for the relief of the poor |
| 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 |
| 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 |
batting average
hitting average | (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance, the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat, Ted Williams once had a batting average above . |
| batting average | (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds, the salesman's batting average was out of |
| fielding average | (baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance, the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances |
| average | (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities |
| conflict of interest | a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests |
average
average out | compute the average of |
| interest | excite the curiosity of, engage the interest of |
| average | achieve or reach on average, He averaged a C |
average
average out | amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain, The number of hours I work per work averages out to |
| 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! |
average
ordinary | lacking special distinction, rank, or status, commonly encountered, average people, the ordinary (or common) man in the street |
| 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 |
average
intermediate
medium | around the middle of a scale of evaluation, an orange of average size, intermediate capacity, medium bombers |
| average mean(a) | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value, the average income in New England is below that of the nation, of average height for his age, the mean annual rainfall |
median(a)
average | relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values), the median value of , , and i, the median income for the year was $, |
modal(a)
average | relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution, the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak i |