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Example sentences for "compound interest"

  • Hundreds of sums at compound interest, and it tots up to a million and a half--a million and a half!

  • All the accumulations--seventy years of compound interest!

  • For I never got so far in the book as compound interest.

  • Compound interest is generally paid on the deposits in savings banks and is used in calculating amortization and sinking funds.

  • In some States the collection of compound interest is not permitted.

  • There is not, however, anything magical or automatic in the operation of compound interest, nor can the separation of a sinking fund from general revenue have any real efficacy.

  • Thus his share of the earnings is steadily increased by compound interest, and if he keeps up his regular payments the shares mature in about sixteen years.

  • It is necessary only to apply the formula of present worth and that of compound interest on investments.

  • An endowment policy must be understood to be a regular term policy of insurance for the specified number of years, plus a plan of regular annual savings, which at compound interest, accumulate to the face of the policy.

  • In fact, the doctor looked on the increase of money by compound interest as a mere arithmetical process.

  • Fortuné stated that this sum was the result of a present of twenty-four livres which he had received when he was a boy, and had kept accumulating at compound interest to a period of advanced age.

  • The money was to be divided into five portions, each of 100 livres, and so to be put out at compound interest.

  • One geometrical ratio might cancel another, and the nineteenth century was able to forget the fertility of the species in a contemplation of the dizzy virtues of compound interest.

  • That is to say, the capital sum of indebtedness is rolling up all the time at compound interest.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brute force; compound body; compound engine; compound interest; compound leaf; compound leaves; compound predicate; compound sentence; compound subject; compound word; compound words; federal party; gain control; here the; leaving their; mighty hard; moral action; national economy; observe them; school work; slow down; spread them; things went; triumph over; white granite; young gentlemen