Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

with interest

 
Banking Dictionary: With Interest

Bonds or securities paying accrued interest to the bearer. When sold, the buyer pays any interest accrued since the last payment date, in addition to the market price.

Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
Idioms: with interest
Top

With more than what one should receive, extra, and then some. For example, Mary borrowed Jane's new dress without asking, but Jane paid her back with interest--she drove off in Mary's car. This idiom alludes to interest in the financial sense. Its figurative use dates from the late 1500s.


 
 
Learn More
disinterest
Rate of Interest (business term)
simple interest

How can you get him interested in you? Read answer...
What is interesting? Read answer...
What are interest groups most interested in? Read answer...

Help us answer these
What is he interested in?
Are you interested in this?
Are you interest in?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Banking Dictionary. Dictionary of Banking Terms. Copyright © 2006 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more