interest-bearing

1. 1.

   of financial obligations on which interest is paid

Questions about interest-bearing

What does interest-bearing mean?

interest-bearing means "of financial obligations on which interest is paid".

How many syllables are in interest-bearing?

interest-bearing has 6 syllables: in-te-rest--be-a-ring. The stress falls on "be".

Is interest-bearing a common word?

interest-bearing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.