2. adj. (now rare) Motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving.
3. adj. Owning a share of a company.
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of interest
interest
1. n. (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.
2. n. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
3. n. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of win
2. v. (archaic, or obsolete, regional) To live, remain.
3. v. (archaic, or obsolete, regional) To be accustomed to do something.
4. n. The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
win
1. v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
2. v. (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
3. v. To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
4. v. To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
1. n. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
2. n. A lie, fiction.
3. n. (US, colloquial usually pluralized) A soap opera.
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we'd
1. contraction. we had
2. contraction. we would
we
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
would
1. v.As a past-tense form of will.:
2. v. (obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
3. v. (archaic) Wanted to ( + bare infinitive).
4. v. Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
5. v. Used with bare infinitive to form the "anterior future", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
will
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
1. n. The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
We made a nice cake from dates.
2. n. The date palm.
There were a few dates planted around the house.
3. n. The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
2. n. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.
3. n. (often specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.
My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
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services
1. n. (business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
2. n. plural of service
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of service
service
1. n. An act of being of assistance to someone.
2. n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
3. n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
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policy
1. n. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
2. n. (obsolete) A state; a polity.
3. n. (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
4. n. (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
5. n. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
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