Best Definition–adjective, superl. of good with better as compar. | 1. | of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students. |
| 2. | most advantageous, suitable, or desirable: the best way. |
| 3. | largest; most: the best part of a day. |
–adverb, superl. of well with better as compar. | 4. | most excellently or suitably; with most advantage or success: an opera role that best suits her voice. |
| 5. | in or to the highest degree; most fully (usually used in combination): best-suited; best-known; best-loved. |
–noun | 6. | something or someone that is best: They always demand and get the best. The best of us can make mistakes. |
| 7. | a person's finest clothing: It's important that you wear your best. |
| 8. | a person's most agreeable or desirable emotional state (often prec. by at). |
| 9. | a person's highest degree of competence, inspiration, etc. (often prec. by at). |
| 10. | the highest quality to be found in
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| 11. | the best effort that a person, group, or thing can make: Their best fell far short of excellence. |
| 12. | a person's best wishes or kindest regards: Please give my best to your father. |
–verb (used with object) | 13. | to get the better of; defeat; beat: He easily bested his opponent in hand-to-hand combat. She bested me in the argument. |
—Idioms| 14. | all for the best, for the good as the final result; to an ultimate advantage: At the time it was hard to realize how it could be all for the best. Also, for the best. |
| 15. | as best one can, in the best way possible under the circumstances: We tried to smooth over the disagreement as best we could. |
| 16. | at best, under the most favorable circumstances: You may expect to be treated civilly, at best. |
| 17. | get or have the best of, | a. | to gain the advantage over. |
| b. | to defeat; subdue: His arthritis gets the best of him from time to time. |
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| 18. | had best, would be wisest or most reasonable to; ought to: You had best phone your mother to tell her where you are going. |
| 19. | make the best of, to cope with in the best way possible: to make the best of a bad situation. |
| 20. | with the best, on a par with the most capable: He can play bridge with the best. |
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Interest Definition–noun | 1. | the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne. |
| 2. | something that concerns, involves, draws the attention of, or arouses the curiosity of a person: His interests are philosophy and chess. |
| 3. | power of exciting such concern, involvement, etc.; quality of being interesting: political issues of great interest. |
| 4. | concern; importance: a matter of primary interest. |
| 5. | a business, cause, or the like in which a person has a share, concern, responsibility, etc. |
| 6. | a share, right, or title in the ownership of property, in a commercial or financial undertaking, or the like: He bought half an interest in the store. |
| 7. | a participation in or concern for a cause, advantage, responsibility, etc. |
| 8. | a number or group of persons, or a party, financially interested in the same business, industry, or enterprise: the banking interest. |
| 9. | interests, the group of persons or organizations having extensive financial or business power. |
| 10. | the state of being affected by something in respect to advantage or detriment: We need an arbiter who is without interest in the outcome. |
| 11. | benefit; advantage: to have one's own interest in mind. |
| 12. | regard for one's own advant
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| 13. | influence from personal importance or capability; power of influencing the action of others. |
| 14. | Finance. | a. | a sum paid or charged for the use of money or for borrowing money. |
| b. | such a sum expressed as a percentage of money borrowed to be paid over a given period, usually one year. |
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| 15. | something added or thrown in above an exact equivalent: Jones paid him back with a left hook and added a right uppercut for interest. |
–verb (used with object) | 16. | to engage or excite the attention or curiosity of: Mystery stories interested him greatly. |
| 17. | to concern (a person, nation, etc.) in something; involve: The fight for peace interests all nations. |
| 18. | to cause to take a personal concern or share; induce to participate: to interest a person in an enterprise. |
| 19. | to cause to be concerned; affect. |
—Idiom| 20. | in the interest(s) of, to the advantage or advancement of; in behalf of: in the interests of good government. |
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Rate Definition–noun | 1. | the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation: a high rate of interest on loans. |
| 2. | a certain quantity or amount of one thing considered in relation to a unit of another thing and used as a standard or measure: at the rate of 60 miles an hour. |
| 3. | a fixed charge per unit of quantity: a rate of 10 cents a pound. |
| 4. | price; cost: to cut rates on all home furnishings. |
| 5. | degree of speed, progress, etc.: to work at a rapid rate. |
| 6. | degree or comparative extent of action or procedure: the rate of increase in work output. |
| 7. | relative condition or quality; grade, class, or sort. |
| 8. | assigned position in any of a series of graded classes; rating. |
| 9. | Insurance. the premium charge per unit of insurance. |
| 10. | a charge by a common carrier for transportation, sometimes including certain services involved in rendering such transportation. |
| 11. | a wage paid on a specified time basis: a salary figured on an hourly rate. |
| 12. | a charge or price established in accordance with a scale or standard: hotel rates based on length of stay. |
| 13. | H
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| 14. | Usually, rates. British. | a. | a tax on property for some local purpose. |
| b. | any tax assessed and paid to a local government, as any city tax or district tax. |
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| 16. | to esteem, consider, or account: He was rated one of the best writers around. |
| 17. | to fix at a certain rate, as of charge or payment. |
| 18. | to value for purposes of taxation or the like. |
| 19. | to make subject to the payment of a certain rate or tax. |
| 20. | to place in a certain rank, class, etc., as a ship or a sailor; give a specific rating to. |
| 21. | to be considered or treated as worthy of; merit: an event that doesn't even rate a mention in most histories of the period. |
| 22. | to arrange for the conveyance of (goods) at a certain rate. |
–verb (used without object) | 23. | to have value, standing, etc.: a performance that didn't rate very high in the competition. |
| 24. | to have position in a certain class. |
| 25. | to rank very high in estimation: The new teacher really rates with our class. |
—Idiom| 26. | at any rate, | a. | in any event; in any case. |
| b. | at least: It was a mediocre film, but at any rate there was one outstanding individual performance. |
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