Usually means: Earning interest on interest accumulated.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word compound interest:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. compound interest: Merriam-Webster
  2. compound interest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. compound interest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compound interest: Vocabulary.com
  5. compound-interest, compound interest: Wordnik
  6. compound interest: Wiktionary
  7. compound interest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. compound interest: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. compound interest: Dictionary.com
  10. Compound Interest (website), Compound Interest, Compound interest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. compound interest: Rhymezone
  12. compound interest: FreeDictionary.org
  13. compound interest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. compound interest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. compound interest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. compound interest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. compound interest: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. COMPOUND INTEREST: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Compound interest: bizterms.net
  9. Compound interest: Moneyterms
  10. compound interest: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Compound Interest: Investopedia
  13. Compound interest: Legal dictionary
  14. compound interest: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  17. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Compound Interest: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. compound interest: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See compound_interests as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (compound interest)

noun:  (banking, finance) Interest, as on a loan or a bank account, that is calculated on the total on the principal plus accumulated unpaid interest.

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