yield
Americanverb (used with object)
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to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation.
This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
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to produce or furnish (payment, profit, or interest).
a trust fund that yields ten percent interest annually; That investment will yield a handsome return.
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to give up, as to superior power or authority.
They yielded the fort to the enemy.
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to give up or surrender (oneself ).
He yielded himself to temptation.
- Antonyms:
- resist
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to give up or over; relinquish or resign.
to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio.
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to give as due or required.
to yield obedience to one's teachers.
- Synonyms:
- render
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to cause; give rise to.
The play yielded only one good laugh.
verb (used without object)
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to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear.
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to surrender or submit, as to superior power.
The rebels yielded after a week.
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to give way to influence, entreaty, argument, or the like.
Don't yield to their outrageous demands.
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to give place or precedence (usually followed byto ).
to yield to another; Will the senator from New York yield?
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to give way to force, pressure, etc., so as to move, bend, collapse, or the like.
I've pushed and pushed, but this door will not yield.
noun
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something yielded.
- Synonyms:
- fruit
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the quantity or amount yielded.
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the act or process of yielding.
the yield of plastic materials under stress.
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Chemistry. the quantity of product formed by the interaction of two or more substances, generally expressed as a percentage of the quantity obtained to that theoretically obtainable.
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the income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost.
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a measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of TNT that would produce the same destruction.
verb
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to give forth or supply (a product, result, etc), esp by cultivation, labour, etc; produce or bear
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(tr) to furnish as a return
the shares yielded three per cent
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to surrender or relinquish, esp as a result of force, persuasion, etc
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to give way, submit, or surrender, as through force or persuasion
she yielded to his superior knowledge
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to agree; comply; assent
he eventually yielded to their request for money
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(tr) to grant or allow; concede
to yield right of way
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obsolete (tr) to pay or repay
God yield thee!
noun
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the result, product, or amount yielded
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the profit or return, as from an investment or tax
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the annual income provided by an investment, usually expressed as a percentage of its cost or of its current value
the yield on these shares is 15 per cent at today's market value
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the energy released by the explosion of a nuclear weapon expressed in terms of the amount of TNT necessary to produce the same energy
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chem the quantity of a specified product obtained in a reaction or series of reactions, usually expressed as a percentage of the quantity that is theoretically obtainable
Related Words
Yield, submit, surrender mean to give way or give up to someone or something. To yield is to concede under some degree of pressure, but not necessarily to surrender totally: to yield ground to an enemy. To submit is to give up more completely to authority, superior force, etc., and to cease opposition, although usually with reluctance: to submit to control. To surrender is to give up complete possession of, relinquish, and cease claim to: to surrender a fortress, one's freedom, rights. See crop.
Other Word Forms
- outyield verb (used with object)
- underyield noun
- unyielded adjective
- yieldable adjective
- yielder noun
Etymology
Origin of yield
First recorded before 900; (for the verb) Middle English y(i)elden, Old English g(i)eldan “to pay”; cognate with German gelten “to be worth, apply to”; noun derivative of the verb
Example Sentences
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The remark caused Japanese bond yields to rise sharply, while yields on other global sovereign bonds, from the U.S. to Europe and the rest of Asia, quickly followed suit.
From MarketWatch
Many on the Street have questioned Strategy’s ability to service its preferred dividends and debt interest costs, seeing as its Bitcoin holdings generate no income and its legacy software business yields little free cash.
From Barron's
The Bank of Japan governor said the central bank will discuss a rate hike, a comment that lifted the yen and yields on Japanese bonds.
From MarketWatch
The sector’s valuations should also continue to appreciate, driven by factors such as high dividend yields, Woo says.
And bonds can provide a steady yield that, barring a default by the issuer, can keep paying even if the same company’s stock is tumbling.
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