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Yield   /jild/   Listen
Yield

noun
1.
Production of a certain amount.  Synonym: output.
2.
The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.  Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings.
3.
An amount of a product.  Synonym: fruit.
4.
The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time).  Synonyms: output, production.
verb
(past & past part. yielded; obs. past part. yold; pres. part. yielding)
1.
Be the cause or source of.  Synonyms: afford, give.  "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
2.
End resistance, as under pressure or force.  Synonym: give way.
3.
Give or supply.  Synonyms: generate, give, render, return.  "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn" , "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
4.
Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.  Synonyms: cede, concede, grant.
5.
Give in, as to influence or pressure.  Synonyms: relent, soften.
6.
Move in order to make room for someone for something.  Synonyms: ease up, give, give way, move over.  "'Move over,' he told the crowd"
7.
Cause to happen or be responsible for.  Synonym: give.
8.
Be willing to concede.  Synonyms: concede, grant.
9.
Be fatally overwhelmed.  Synonym: succumb.
10.
Bring in.  Synonyms: bear, pay.  "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"
11.
Be flexible under stress of physical force.  Synonym: give.
12.
Cease opposition; stop fighting.
13.
Consent reluctantly.  Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb.



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"Yield" Quotes from Famous Books



... whole matter was, however, cut short by the commanding officer, who from the first had violently opposed the scheme, declaring that he would order the sentinels to fire on us if we attempted to leave the fort. So, finding the majority against us, we were obliged to yield. ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
... of the harvest. As best it could! Would the Master of the Harvest ask more? Alas! he had still something to find fault with, for when he looked at the ears and saw that they were small and poor, he grumbled, and said the yield would be less than it ought to be, and the harvest ...
— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... up, that were a hundred years before her; which was no inferior piece of State, to lay the burthen on that house {26} which was best able to bear it at a dead lift, when neither her receipts could yield her relief at the pinch, nor the urgency of her affairs endure the delays of Parliamentary assistance. And for such aids it is likewise apparent that she received more, and that with the love of her people, than any two of her ...
— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton
... officer.—To catch a Tartar. Said of a vessel which mistakes her enemy's force, and is obliged to yield. ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... Thario, for a while it was touchandgo whether the President would yield to the men of vision or the others. But in the end apprehension and calculation ordained that every effort must be made to reinforce the defense of the ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore


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