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- DictionaryYield/yēld/
verb
- 1. produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product): "the land yields grapes and tobacco"
- 2. give way to arguments, demands, or pressure: "the Western powers now yielded when they should have resisted"
noun
- 1. the full amount of an agricultural or industrial product: "the milk yield was poor"
A bond yields an interest rate of 2%, or gives an investor $2.00 for every $100 invested. Definitions of yield. verb. give or supply. “This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn”. synonyms: generate, give, render, return. give. cause to happen or be responsible for. establish, give.
to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information: an attempt to yield increased profits. The investigation yielded some unexpected results. Favorable weather yielded a good crop. Fewer examples. The process yields oil for industrial use.
1. a. To give forth a natural product; be productive. b. To produce a return for effort or investment: bonds that yield well. 2. a. To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit. b. To give way to pressure or force: The door yielded to a gentle push. c. To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty. d.
2 days ago · yield. (jiːld ) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense yields , present participle yielding , past tense, past participle yielded. 1. verb. If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them. [formal] Will she yield to growing pressure for her to retire? [VERB + to] I yielded to an impulse. [VERB to noun]
to produce or provide something: to yield a profit. The investigation yielded some unexpected results. yield to demands/pressure, etc. to be forced to do something. yield verb (TRAFFIC) to stop in order to allow other vehicles to go past before you drive onto a bigger road. yield. noun [ C ] uk / jiːld / us. the amount of something that is produced
[intransitive] (formal) to stop resisting something/somebody; to agree to do something that you do not want to do synonym give way. After a long siege, the town was forced to yield. yield to something/somebody He reluctantly yielded to their demands. I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar. Extra Examples. Topics Discussion and agreement c1
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Transport yield1 /jiːld/ verb 1 result [ transitive] to produce a result, answer, or piece of information Our research has only recently begun to yield important results. 2 crops/profits [ transitive] to produce crops, profits etc Each of these oilfields could yield billions of ...
