debt interest
Loan carrying charge
Debt interest is the cost of borrowing money—the amount a borrower pays a lender beyond the principal for the use of funds over time.
The term appears frequently in government finance, where debt interest payments represent a significant portion of public spending: Rising debt interest is crowding out other budget priorities.
For individuals, debt interest includes what you pay on mortgages, credit cards, and loans.
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- student loansBorrowed funds for tuition
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- compoundCombined into one
accrued · mortgage · credit · credit card · APR · usury · compounding · owed · paying off · minimum payment · borrowing · lender · creditor · balance · monthly · overdue · accumulating · in the red
- government spendinggovernment spending, federal budget, expenditures, allocations, military spending
- public spendingbudget allocation, public spending, national budget, healthcare spending, federal budget
- interest ratesprime rate, base rate, discount rate, lending rate, nominal rate
- software maintenancedebugging, refactoring, bug fixes, code review, patching
debt interestinterest income
Money earned from loans
investment returns · dividend income · passive income · savings interest · rental income
debt interestprincipal
Chief school administrator
principal amount · principal balance · face value · nominal value
debt interestreturn on investment
Profit relative to cost
capital gains · yield · interest-free · debt forgiveness · profit
debt, interest, debts, debtor, debtors, indebted, indebtedness, interests, interested