compound adjective, noun, verb

■ adjective /; AmE /

1 (Accounting )

that pays or charges interest on an amount of money that includes any interest already earned or charged:

Revenues have grown at a compound annual rate of 50%.

2 (Technical ) [only before noun]

formed of two or more parts:

a compound lens

■ noun /; AmE / [C]

a thing consisting of two or more separate things combined together:

Management requires a compound of skills.

The development of the drug compound will be discontinued.

■ verb // [+ obj]

1 (Accounting )

to keep adding interest, profit, etc. to an amount of money as it is earned, so that the amount used as a basis for calculations keeps growing:

compounded earnings on investments

2

to make sth bad become even worse by causing further harm:

The firm's difficulties were compounded by the cancellation of two large orders.

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