interest rate
noun
the amount that a lender charges a borrower for taking out a loan, for maintaining a balance on debt, etc.: typically expressed as an annual percentage of the loan balance.
interest rates
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pluralof interest rate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The capex boom has also created a funding risk that was largely ignored in the period of ultra-low interest rates and financial repression that followed the global financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
To seal the deal, Tan intervened with 11th-hour concessions, agreeing to higher interest rates and guarantees to cover an Anthropic default.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Investors already know that higher interest rates are benefiting the banks so HSBC's big increase in third-quarter profits was not enough to win them over," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
“In terms of deposit behavior, when interest rates are higher, we have seen also in previous times that there’s a shift to more time deposits,” CFO Pam Kaur said on a conference call.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
By the time I reentered, the guests were in open debate, and the discussion - with much talk of commerce and interest rates - was quite beyond me.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
