fee vs yield

fee

verb
  • To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. 

noun
  • A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service. 

  • An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good that is minor compared to the underlying cost. 

  • Synonym of fief: the land so held. 

  • An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail). 

  • An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service. 

yield

verb
  • To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. 

  • To produce as a result. 

  • To give, or give forth, (anything). 

  • To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. 

  • To produce as return, as from an investment. 

  • To give way; to succumb to a force. 

  • To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. 

  • To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation. 

  • To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. 

  • To give way; to allow another to pass first. 

noun
  • Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. 

  • A product; the quantity of something produced. 

  • The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. 

  • The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. 

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