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simple interest

noun

finance : interest paid only on the original amount of money and not on the interest it has already earned

Full Definition of SIMPLE INTEREST

:  interest paid or computed on the original principal only of a loan or on the amount of an account
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First Known Use of SIMPLE INTEREST

1798

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