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interest rate

The cost of borrowing money or the return paid on savings.

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Discount 76% connected

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt paym…

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Usury 76% connected

A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.

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Rate 76% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Bank discount noun · 86% connection

interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

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Base rate noun · 86% connection

the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks

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Discount rate noun · 86% connection

interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

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Economic growth noun · 86% connection

steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)

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Fiscal policy noun · 86% connection

a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing)

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GDP noun · 86% connection

the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and…

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Gross domestic product noun · 86% connection

the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and…

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Lombard rate noun · 86% connection

an interest rate charged by a central bank for very short term loans to other banks against an approved collateral.; "Lending is via c…

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Macroeconomics noun · 86% connection

the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy

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Prime interest rate noun · 86% connection

the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings

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Rate of interest noun · 86% connection

the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use

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unemployment noun · 86% connection

the state of being unemployed or not having a job; "unemployment is a serious social evil"; "the rate of unemployment is an indicator…

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Vigorish noun · 86% connection

an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest

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Economic science noun · 85% connection

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

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Economics noun · 85% connection

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

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exchange rate noun · 85% connection

the charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another

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oligopoly noun · 85% connection

(economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can i…

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Political economy noun · 85% connection

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

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Adoption noun · 78% connection

the appropriation (of ideas or words etc.) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"

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Appoggiatura noun · 78% connection

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

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Arles n. pl. · 78% connection

An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain.

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Blood money unknown · 78% connection

Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained…

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Bond noun · 78% connection

An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a g…

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Borrow noun · 78% connection

The act of borrowing.

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Borrowed capital noun · 78% connection

capital which the business borrows from institutions or people; includes various debentures.; "Capital contributed by the owner or ent…

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Borrowing noun · 78% connection

the appropriation (of ideas or words etc.) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"

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Capital cost noun · 78% connection

the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if i…

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Cash noun · 78% connection

A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

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Cost verb · 78% connection

To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, rel…

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Cost of capital noun · 78% connection

the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if i…

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Cost-plus contract noun · 78% connection

a contract in which the contractor is paid their total cost plus a stated percentage of profit

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