Meaning of yield in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

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

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

  Example: Yield the right of way to pedestrians.

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

  Example: They refuse to yield to the enemy.

• To give, or give forth, (anything).

• To give way; to succumb to a force.

• To produce as return, as from an investment.

  Example: Historically, that security yields a high return.

• To produce as a result.

  Example: Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

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

  Example: Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

• (of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

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

noun

• Payment; tribute.

• A product; the quantity of something produced.

  Example: Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.

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

• Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.