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(price paid) (finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.

(reward earned) (finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent

(heightened attention as curiosity) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.

(heightened attention most broadly) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.

(any stake held by any type of stakeholder) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.

(something or someone as focus of attention) Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.

(worthiness of attention) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.

(damages as compensation) (rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.

(persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure) (in the plural) The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

(genre of factual short films) (attributive) A genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label.

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.

(impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.

(obsolete) To cause or permit to share.