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Definition of yield in English:

yield

verb

  • 1with object Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product)

    ‘the land yields grapes and tobacco’
    • ‘Of all sugary plant produce, none yields a commodity as highly valued or widely grown as grape wine.’
    • ‘Cross-referencing among chapters is excellent, yielding a product that appears more integrated than such symposium-product volumes often are.’
    • ‘In 17 of 19 cases PCR yielded nonspecific products or failed.’
    • ‘Repeated amplifications using the same templates yielded products with identical DNA sequences.’
    • ‘Since that land would not be totally barren or completely isolated, it would yield some product.’
    • ‘His grass farm had begun to yield a new product: profits.’
    • ‘Further experiments, however, yielded a refined product that reduced the side effects.’
    • ‘The two reactions each yielded a product of 1.5 kb.’
    • ‘It will also yield valuable manure, provided it is not mixed with inorganic waste like plastic.’
    • ‘The breakdown of porphyrin yields bilirubin, a product that is non-polar and therefore, insoluble.’
    • ‘The complete metabolism of cane sugar and its complete combustion yield the same products: carbon dioxide and water.’
    • ‘North America is the largest producer of flaxseed and related products that yield millions of tons of fiber.’
    • ‘They live in destitution while the land yields billions of dollars annually to the people who took it away.’
    produce, bear, give, supply, provide, afford, return, bring in, pull in, haul in, gather in, fetch, earn, net, realize, generate, furnish, bestow, pay out, contribute
    produce, bear, give, supply, provide, afford, return, bring in, pull in, haul in, gather in, fetch, earn, net, realize, generate, furnish, bestow, pay out, contribute
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    1. 1.1Produce or generate (a result, gain, or financial return)
      ‘this method yields the same results’
      ‘such investments yield direct cash returns’
      • ‘There are more direct and quicker methods that yield similar results.’
      • ‘Such strong methods have yielded results.’
      • ‘This method yielded excellent results because there was improvement of 15 to 20 per cent each time a teacher repeated the exercise.’
      • ‘As these methods had yielded such splendid results from nature, they must have something to say about human societies.’
      • ‘Our results yielded a nonsignificant effect.’
      • ‘The students' opinions of distance learning versus traditional methods yielded mixed results.’
      • ‘Both methods yielded similar results.’
      • ‘Since results from both methods yielded consistent results, only parametric analyses are presented.’
      • ‘Although his methods could never yield accurate results, they did show that the sun was much further from the earth than was the moon.’
      • ‘It has been shown that he needed to make further assumptions for his methods to yield the results that he claimed for them.’
      • ‘The same data submitted to different clustering methods can yield different results.’
      • ‘Cultures of fluid and biopsy tissue are the diagnostic methods most likely to yield positive results.’
      • ‘Both methods yielded similar results in terms of the estimated growth rates.’
      • ‘The direct tax proposals will yield a gain of $2,000’
      • ‘It is an important investment and should yield results in the coming years.’
      • ‘It's too bad that the return on your investment doesn't always yield the big gains you want.’
      • ‘If the first experience with a film yields positive results, clients will likely be enthusiastic about similar homework assignments in the future.’
      • ‘The challenge yields some intriguing results, but it ultimately leaves one desperate for real content.’
      • ‘If this solution yields no result you may have a dead card.’
      • ‘It yields the same result.’
      bear, give, supply, provide, afford, return, bring in, pull in, haul in, gather in, fetch, earn, net, realize, generate, furnish, bestow, pay out, contribute
      bear, give, supply, provide, afford, return, bring in, pull in, haul in, gather in, fetch, earn, net, realize, generate, furnish, bestow, pay out, contribute
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  • 2no object Give way to arguments, demands, or pressure.

    ‘the Western powers now yielded when they should have resisted’
    ‘he yielded to the demands of his partners’
    • ‘It is reported that the company yielded to the toughest demand to avoid government intervention.’
    • ‘She yielded to their demands.’
    • ‘At the age of 76, Jenkins finally yielded to public demand and performed at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 1944.’
    • ‘Finally, he partially yielded to their argument.’
    • ‘The Japanese government yielded to these demands.’
    • ‘This weekend, the administration yielded to his demands and agreed to include a disputed 30 month period in calculating his pension entitlements.’
    • ‘He finally yielded to her demands.’
    • ‘He yielded to pressure by sharing power with a Prime Minister.’
    • ‘As the state yielded to the power of the mob, German men were forcibly removed from their homes, often ostensibly for their own protection.’
    • ‘Workers yielded to pressure and resumed work yesterday, without any improvement, in laying the cross-country pipeline.’
    • ‘The authority yielded to American pressure.’
    • ‘The councillors may have yielded to pressure.’
    • ‘Cooper yielded to the pressure in the 13 th minute.’
    • ‘He might have yielded to pressure to save his position.’
    • ‘He didn't really want the job but yielded to public pressure.’
    • ‘But it later yielded to nearly all the striking truckers' demands.’
    • ‘Halifax chiefs are understood to have yielded to Bank of Scotland's demand that the new company be sited in the Scottish capital.’
    • ‘In any event Spencer yielded to pressure and resigned in 1893.’
    • ‘In May 1915 Vienna reluctantly yielded to German pressure.’
    • ‘She yielded to pressure from her contemporaries.’
    surrender, capitulate, submit, relent, admit defeat, accept defeat, concede defeat, back down, climb down, quit, give in, give up the struggle, lay down one's arms, raise the white flag, show the white flag, knuckle under
    accede to, submit to, bow down to, defer to, comply with, conform to, agree to, consent to, go along with, be guided by, heed, note, pay attention to
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    1. 2.1with object Relinquish possession of.
      ‘they might yield up their secrets’
      ‘they are forced to yield ground’
      • ‘The Ospreys struggled to secure quality first-phase possession, naively throwing long at the lineout, which often yielded possession back to the enthusiastic Blues.’
      • ‘Scholars do not yield their ground readily unless the evidence against their position is overwhelming.’
      • ‘Without yielding much ground, I sympathize.’
      • ‘The ordinary people refused to yield up their humanity.’
      • ‘There's absolutely no reason to yield up either and we will not.’
      • ‘We were going to wait and see whether they responded to the call to yield up the people responsible.’
      • ‘We understood that overwhelming love drove them to yield up their babies in a hope that they may have a better future.’
      • ‘They are still refusing to yield up their weapons.’
      • ‘Science must not yield any of its own ground.’
      relinquish, surrender, part with, deliver up, hand over, turn over, give over
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    2. 2.2with object Concede (a point of dispute)
      ‘I yielded the point’
    3. 2.3North American Give right of way to other traffic.
      • ‘Motorists will be able to proceed through the intersection after yielding to circulating traffic on the left.’
      • ‘He said under the new traffic system, motorists drive around the green as they would around a roundabout, yielding to traffic coming from the right and travelling in a clockwise direction.’
      • ‘The safety authority wanted all vehicles approaching a T-junction from a minor road to yield to right-turning traffic from a through road.’
      • ‘A preliminary investigation indicates she was at fault for failing to yield to oncoming traffic….’

  • 3no object (of a mass or structure) give way under force or pressure.

    ‘he reeled into the house as the door yielded’
    • ‘The structure yields.’
    • ‘The upper right-hand corner yielded to a slight pressure.’
    bend, give, flex, be flexible, be pliant
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noun

  • 1An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product.

    ‘the milk yield was poor’
    • ‘It severely reduces agricultural yields and productivity.’
    • ‘The majority of the continent's population is employed in agriculture characterized by low yields and low labor productivity.’
    • ‘Genetically engineered super plants are expected to boost agricultural yields significantly.’
    • ‘The result has often been poor yields and high production costs.’
    • ‘He said Government had spent enough resources in the agricultural sector which should produce a good yield.’
    • ‘Organic farmers use natural controls and work with nature's cycles to produce healthful, abundant yields.’
    • ‘It must be optimized to produce yields in excess of 100 bushels per acre.’
    • ‘Scientists warn that such changes could affect agricultural yields, timber harvests and water resource productivity.’
    • ‘Yields of cereal grains are likely to decrease in the tropics where many countries are already under water stress.’
    • ‘While the yield of a product is carefully monitored, the amount of waste generated has until recently been of less concern.’
    • ‘In the office and industrial sectors, yields are likely to be less than 5% at present.’
    • ‘The significance of soil salinity for agricultural yields is enormous.’
    • ‘Milk yield is dependent on a good energy intake and a crude protein of 16.5% in the diet.’
    • ‘In the case of cereals, grain is the primary yield and total production depends on the number of plants per area, tillers per plant, number of ears per tiller, grains per ear and mass per grain.’
    • ‘Agricultural yields were improving and the development of turnpike roads and canals later in the century enabled food to be transported more quickly to areas of shortage.’
    • ‘The high yields of the stock market can be exploited either by letting individuals invest their money in the market or by having the government invest it there for them.’
    • ‘Producers have reduced yields and controlled fermentation temperatures in an attempt to capture the distinct aroma of the grape.’
    • ‘They need Phosphorus and Potassium to produce high yields and to persist.’
    • ‘The ultimate goal of credit is to produce yields for both the bank and the debtor.’
    • ‘There is still time, though, for winter wheat to be drilled and to produce reasonable yields.’
    1. 1.1A financial return.
      ‘an annual dividend yield of 20 per cent’
      • ‘While Twain was most impressed with the productivity of Hawaiian acreage, both in terms of yields and returns on capital, he devoted the bulk of his article to a discussion of labour.’
      • ‘US shares returned a total yield for the period of less than zero, giving the lie to the often-heard pronouncement that long-term stock market returns are always healthy.’
      • ‘Becoming a real landlady is a lot of work and the apartment market is only returning an annual yield of about 2.5%, barely enough to cover inflation.’
      • ‘I will increase my investment in British commercial property, as prices have weakened and rental yields are strong.’
      • ‘The yields at which investors have the opportunity to get into both markets look sensible.’
      • ‘Such price increases in bonds would, sooner or later, be reversed and yields would return to their average levels seen in the past.’
      • ‘A Fresh Strategy for Bonds Earnings will come from yields, not price gains’
      • ‘This is pushing prices up and resulting in yields returning to 2000 levels.’
      • ‘He said that the Fed still had ammunition to fight the deflation threat and hinted that it might consider market operations to drive long-term yields lower.’
      • ‘The four smaller operators offer juicy yields of around 6% or more.’
      profit, gain, return, reward, revenue, dividend, proceeds, receipts, earnings, takings
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Origin

Old English g(i)eldan ‘pay, repay’, of Germanic origin. The senses ‘produce, bear’ and ‘surrender’ arose in Middle English.

Pronunciation

yield

/jiːld/