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interest /'Çntrǝst, -rest/ n

၁။ [U, sing]~ (in sb/ sth) စိတ် ဝင်စားမှု။ feel/ have/ show/ express (an) interest in sth ❍ a topic that arouses/ raises/ stimulates a lot of interest ❍ listen to sth with interest ❍ do sth (just) for interest/ out of interest/ for interest's sake (ie simply to satisfy a desire for knowledge) ❍ Now he's grown up he no longer takes any interest in his stamp collection. ❍ By that stage I had lost (all) interest in the idea. Compare DISINTEREST
၂။ [U] စိတ်ဝင်စားမှု။ စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်။ The subject holds no interest for me. ❍ The fact that we know the people involved adds interest to the story. ❍ There's nothing of interest in the local paper.
၃။ [C] စိတ်ဝင်စားမှု။ ဝါသနာ။ a person of wide/ varied interests ❍ Outside her work, her main interests are music and tennis.
၄။ [C usu pl ] အကျိုး။ look after/ protect/ safeguord one's own interests (ie make sure that nothing is done to one's disadvantage) ❍ He has your best interests at heart (ie is acting for your advantage). ❍ decide what is in the best interests of shareholders ❍ It would be in your interest (ie to your advantage) to go.
၅။ [U] ~ (on sth) (finance ) အတိုး။ pay interest/ make interest payments on a loan ❍ charge interest at 10% ❍ a high/ low rate of interest. See also COMPOUND INTEREST, SIMPLE INTEREST
၆။ [C usu pl ] ~ (in sth) (စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်း တရားဝင်) အစုရှယ်ယာ၊ အခွင့် အရေး၊ လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်။ have a controlling interest in a company (ie own enough shares to be able to say how it should be run) ❍ American interests in Europe (eg capital invested in European countries) ❍ He has considerable business interests.
၇။ [C] ~ (in sth) အထူး သဖြင့် ငွေရေးကြေးရေး အားဖြင့် အကျိုးအမြတ် ရရှိနိုင်သော ပုဂ္ဂလိက ပတ်သက်မှု။ Members of Parliament wishing to speak about companies with which they are connected must first declare their interest. See also VESTED INTEREST
၈။ [C usu pl ] ရည်မှန်းချက်ချင်းတူညီသော လူစု။ landed interests (ie people who own land) ❍ middle-class interests ❍ local/ special interest groups.
v ~ sb/ oneself (in sth) (က) စိတ်ဝင်စားသည်။ ပါဝင် ပတ်သက်သည်။ a topic that interests me greatly ❍ Having lost his job, he began to interest himself in voluntary work.
(ခ) ဆွယ်သည်။ ပြကြည့်သည်။ Can I interest you in our latest model?
❏ in the interest(s) of sth [IDM ] … အလို့ငှာ။ In the interest(s) of safety, smoking is forbidden.
❏ interested /-tÇd/ adj
၁။ ~ (in sth/ sb); ~ (in doing sth) စိတ်ဝင်စားသော။ an interested crowd ❍ Are you interested in history? ❍ The company is interested in selling its products overseas. ❍ I tried to tell him about it, but he just wasn't interested. ❍ I'll be interested to see what happens.
၂။ အမြတ်ထုတ်နိုင်မည့် အလားအလာ ရှိ သော။ ဘက်လိုက်ဖွယ်ရာရှိသော။ As an interested party, I was not allowed to vote.
❏ interest-free adj အတိုးမပေးရသော။ အတိုးမဲ့။ an interest-free loan ❍ interest-free credit.
❏ interesting adj စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ interesting ideas/ features/ conversation ❍ It makes interesting reading.
❏ interestingly adv စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသည်မှာ။ Interestingly, consumer spending has increased.
❏ (repay, return, etc sth) with interest [IDM ]
၁။ (finance ) အတိုးရော အရင်းပါဆပ်သည်။
၂။ (infml ) ရက်ရက် ရောရော တုံ့ပြန်သည်။ return a blow with interest.