Interest
Interest noun - A legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something.
Return
Return noun - The amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received.
Usage example: the return on each unit sold has increased since we streamlined the production process
Interest is a synonym for return in yield topic. Sometimes you can use "Interest" instead a noun "Return", if it concerns topics such as profit, earnings.
How words are described
| old | old interest | old return |
| good | good interest | good return |
| special | special interest | special return |
| future | future interest | future return |
| Other adjectives: original, initial, true, dead, actual, real, great, serious, little, slight, potential, main, possible, apparent, temporary, less, official, eventual, previous, sudden. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Sweet Valley High and its spin-offs pulled this several times, usually to have the girls dump a one-shot love interest and return to their regular boyfriends, because Status Quo Is God.
Source: Derailing Love Interests - In a Trapped in Another World adventure, it's time for the hero to return to Our World, and the love interest tearfully says she can't leave her world and go home with him.
Source: Replacement Love Interest -
After Rose spent two seasons as the Doctor's Implied Love Interest, she was trapped in an Alternate Universe with no hope of return.
Source: Ship Sinking
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