Synonyms for high-interest
high-in·ter·est

Princeton's WordNet

1. high-interestadjective

   (used of loans) charging a relatively large percentage of the amount borrowed

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1. Daraius Dubash:

   The greatest risk is not paying your credit card balance in full, the high interest rates are never worth the airline miles.

2. Governor Elvira Nabiullina:

   We will maintain high interest rates to achieve the goal of 4 percent (inflation) if budget consolidation isn't carried out in a way that enables us to soften monetary policy.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   The subprime problems are now creating massive issues on Wall Street, it's a serious problem affecting our housing market and millions of hard working families. So what are some of the things we need to do? We need to expand the role of the (Federal Housing Administration) to issue more mortgages at better rates to these homeowners. We need to give consumers more counseling and information, prevent families from being trapped in high interest loans with pre-payment penalties and in some cases, allow more breathing room from foreclosure.

4. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   As long as we don't take our own money as a benchmark, we are doomed to sink. The Turkish lira, our money, that is what we will go forward with. Not with foreign currency, we have been working for some time now to get the Turkish economy out of the spiral of high interest rates, high inflation, and to set it on the path of growth through investment, employment, production, exportation and current account surplus.

5. Ted Rossman:

   It doesn't make sense to pursue 1 %, 2 % or even 5 % in cash back( or an equivalent amount of airline miles or hotel points) if you're paying a high interest rate.