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yield

  [yeeld] ,
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–verb (used with object)
1. to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
2. to produce or furnish (payment, profit, or interest): a trust fund that yields ten percent interest annually; That investment will yield a handsome return.
3. to give up, as to superior power or authority: They yielded the fort to the enemy.
4. to give up or surrender (oneself): He yielded himself to temptation.
5. to give up or over; relinquish or resign: to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio.
6. to give as due or required: to yield obedience.
7. to cause; give rise to: The play yielded only one good laugh.
–verb (used without object)
8. to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear.
9. to surrender or submit, as to superior power: The rebels yielded after a week.
10. to give way to influence, entreaty, argument, or the like: Don't yield to their outrageous demands.
11. to give place or precedence (usually fol. by to): to yield to another; Will the senator from New York yield?
12. to give way to force, pressure, etc., so as to move, bend, collapse, or the like.
–noun
13. the act of yielding or producing.
14. something yielded.
15. the quantity or amount yielded.
16. 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.
17. the income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost.
18. a measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of TNT that would produce the same destruction.
Origin:
bef. 900; (v.) ME y(i)elden, OE g(i)eldan to pay; c. G gelten to be worth, apply to; (n.) late ME, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
yielder, noun

Synonyms:
1. furnish, supply, render, bear. 3. abandon, abdicate, waive, forgo. 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. 6. render. 10. give in, comply, bow. 14. fruit. See crop.

Antonyms:
4. resist.
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yield   (yēld)   
v.   yield·ed, yield·ing, yields

v.   tr.

    1. To give forth by or as if by a natural process, especially by cultivation: a field that yields many bushels of corn.

    2. To furnish as return for effort or investment; be productive of: an investment that yields high percentages.

    3. To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender.

    4. To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede.

    1. To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender.

    2. To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede.

v.   intr.

    1. To give forth a natural product; be productive.

    2. To produce a return for effort or investment: bonds that yield well.

    3. To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.

    4. To give way to pressure or force: The door yielded to a gentle push.

    5. To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty.

    6. To give up one's place, as to one that is superior: yielded to the chairperson.

    1. To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.

    2. To give way to pressure or force: The door yielded to a gentle push.

    3. To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty.

    4. To give up one's place, as to one that is superior: yielded to the chairperson.

n.  

    1. An amount yielded or produced; a product.

    2. A profit obtained from an investment; a return.

  2. The energy released by an explosion, especially by a nuclear explosion, expressed in units of weight of TNT required to produce an equivalent release: The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 20 kilotons.


[Middle English yielden, from Old English geldan, to pay.]
yield'er n.
Synonyms: These verbs all mean to give in to what one can no longer oppose or resist. Yield has the widest application: My neighbor won't yield to reason. "The child ... soon yielded to the drowsiness" (Charles Dickens).
To relent is to moderate the harshness or severity of an attitude or decision: "The captain at last relented, and told him that he might make himself at home" (Herman Melville).
Bow suggests giving way in defeat or through courtesy: "Bow and accept the end/Of a love" (Robert Frost).
To defer is to yield out of respect for or in recognition of another's authority, knowledge, or judgment: "Philip ... had the good sense to defer to the long experience and the wisdom of his father" (William Hickling Prescott).
Submit implies giving way out of necessity, as after futile or unsuccessful resistance: "obliged to submit to those laws which are imposed upon us (Abigail Adams).
Capitulate implies surrender to pressure, force, compulsion, or inevitability: "I will be conquered; I will not capitulate [to illness]" (Samuel Johnson).
Succumb strongly suggests submission to something overpowering or overwhelming: "I didn't succumb without a struggle to my uncle's allurements'' (H.G. Wells). See Also Synonyms at produce, relinquish.
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Cultural Dictionary

yield

The income from a fixed-income security as a percentage of its market price. For example, if the market price of a bond declines, its yield rises.

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Word Origin & History

yield  (v.)
O.E. geldan (Anglian), gieldan (W.Saxon) "to pay" (class III strong verb; past tense geald, p.p. golden), from P.Gmc. *geldanan "pay" (cf. O.S. geldan "to be worth," O.N. gjaldo "to repay, return," M.Du. ghelden, Du. gelden "to cost, be worth, concern," O.H.G. geltan, Ger. gelten "to be worth," Goth. fra-gildan "to repay, requite"), perhaps from PIE *ghel-to- "I pay," found only in Balto-Slavic and Gmc., unless O.C.S. zledo, Lith. geliuoti are Gmc. loan-words. Sense developed in Eng. via use to translate L. reddere, Fr. rendre, and had expanded by c.1300 to "repay, return, render (service), produce, surrender." Related to M.L.G. and M.Du. gelt, Du. geld, Ger. Geld "money." Earliest Eng. sense survives in financial "yield from investments." The noun is O.E. gield "payment, sum of money;" extended sense of "production" (as of crops) is first attested c.1440. Yielding in sense of "giving way to physical force" is recorded from 1665.
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Financial Dictionary

Yield

The rate of income generated from a stock in the form of dividends, or the effective rate of interest paid on a bond, calculated by the coupon rate divided by the bond's market price. Furthermore, for any investment, yield is the annual rate of return expressed as a percentage.

Investopedia Commentary

Investors can use yield to measure the performance of their investment and compare it to the yield on other investments or securities.

In some situations, yield may not be a true return measure because it doesn't account for capital gains or losses.

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See also: Dividend Yield, Yield Curve, Yield Elbow, Yield Equivalence, Yield To Call, Yield To Maturity, Yield To Worst

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Financial Dictionary

yield

The percentage return on an investment. A given investment can have a variety of yields because of the many methods used to measure yield. For example, a bond's yield may be stated in terms of its returns if held to maturity, if held to the call date, or if held to the put date; or the yield may be calculated simply on the basis of the interest the bond pays compared with its current market price. Also called return. See also current yield, dividend yield, yield to average life, yield to call, yield to maturity, yield to put.

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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: yield
Pronunciation: 'yEld
Function: transitive verb
: to produce as return from an expenditure or investment : furnish as profit or interest yields 6 percent> intransitive verb 1 : to give place or precedence (as to one having a superior right or claim)
2 : to relinquish the floor of a legislative assembly <yield to the senator from Maine>

Main Entry: yield
Function: noun
1 : agricultural production esp. per acre of crop
2 : the return on a financial investment usually expressed as a percentage of cost yield was 8 percent>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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