Definition of yields Yields
/jiˈldz/ - [yeeldz] -
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Wiktionary 
- yields (Noun)
Plural of yield Either a measure of output or an act of permitting another to get past.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: yields |
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| yield - an amount of a product | ||
| fruit | ||
| product, production an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" | ||
| yield - the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" | ||
| return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, payoff | ||
| income the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time | ||
| economic rent, rent the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions | ||
| yield - production of a certain amount | ||
| output | ||
| production (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law; "the appellate court demanded the production of all documents" | ||
| yield - the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time); "production was up in the second quarter" | ||
| output, production | ||
| indefinite quantity an estimated quantity | ||
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| yield - bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" | ||
| pay, bear | ||
| earn, pull in, bring in, realise, realize, gain, take in, clear, make acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | ||
| investment funds, investment the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | ||
| net, clear catch with a net; "net a fish" | ||
| pay off yield a profit or result; "His efforts finally paid off" | ||
| yield - be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information" | ||
| give, afford | ||
| furnish, supply, provide, render provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style" | ||
| open up, open talk freely and without inhibition | ||
| give proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister" | ||
| allow for, provide, allow, leave take measures in preparation for; "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship" | ||
| yield - consent reluctantly | ||
| give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under | ||
| consent, go for, accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| defer, give in, accede, bow, submit take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" | ||
| yield - cease opposition; stop fighting | ||
| surrender, give up give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered" | ||
| fall pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" | ||
| yield - give in, as to influence or pressure | ||
| relent, soften | ||
| remain firm, stand have or maintain a position or stand on an issue; "Where do you stand on the War?" | ||
| truckle yield to out of weakness | ||
| yield - give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" | ||
| render, return, give, generate | ||
| create, produce, make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" | ||
| yield - be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" | ||
| concede, grant | ||
| concur, concord, agree, hold happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided" | ||
| forgive stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday" | ||
| yield - give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | ||
| concede, cede, grant | ||
| give proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister" | ||
| yield - be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material doesn't give" | ||
| give | ||
| stretch extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body; "Stretch your legs!"; "Extend your right arm above your head" | ||
| buckle under, knuckle under, give in, succumb, yield be fatally overwhelmed | ||
| yield - cause to happen or be responsible for; "His two singles gave the team the victory" | ||
| give | ||
| generate, render, yield, return, give bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami" | ||
| create, make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" | ||
| yield - be fatally overwhelmed | ||
| succumb | ||
| pull round, pull through, make it, come through, survive continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" | ||
| buy the farm, perish, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, snuff it, drop dead, decease, cash in one's chips, pop off, pass away, expire, exit, croak, conk, die, choke, pass, go leave quickly | ||
| yield - move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" | ||
| move over, give way, give, ease up | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| abandon, give up stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" | ||
| yield - end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" | ||
| give way | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
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Wiktionary
- yield (Noun)
Payment; tribute. - yield (Noun)
A product; the quantity of something produced. - yield (Noun)
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. - yield (Verb)
To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. - yield (Verb)
To give way; to allow another to pass first. - yield (Verb)
To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. - yield (Verb)
To give way ; to succumb to a force. - yield (Verb)
To produce as return, as from an investment. - yield (Verb)
To produce as a result.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- yield (v. t.)
To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent. - yield (v. t.)
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. - yield (v. t.)
To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc. - yield (v. t.)
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. - yield (v. t.)
To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage. - yield (v. t.)
To give a reward to; to bless. - yield (v. i.)
To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb. - yield (v. i.)
To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request. - yield (v. i.)
To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded. - yield (v. i.)
To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing. - yield (n.)
Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Compensation for the selling of goods and services. -
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Profit or income created through an investment or a business transaction. -
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The accumulated volume or biomass remaining from gross production after accounting for losses due to respiration during production, herbivory, litterfall, and other factors that decrease the remaining available biomass.\n(Source: DUNSTE) -
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To stop to oppose or resist. -
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To be the cause or source of (feeling, effect, etc.) -
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(Economics) The quantity produced, created, or completed. -
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To produce as return, as from an investment; to give or supply. -
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To end resistance, as under pressure or force. -
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To bring in (e.g. interests, money, etc.).
Wikipedia 
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The yield of a financial instrument, usually a debt or other fixed income instrument, is the amount the holder (the one who owns) is paid each year for leaving his or her money invested in that instrument. Unlike a corporate dividend, a yield is fairly certain, unless there is a bankruptcy.
Yields vary with inflation. However, they tend to fit in a fixed order: the least risky instruments, such as Treasury bonds, yield the least, then safe and "guaranteed" instruments like long-term deposits, then overnight deposits, and so on to the various municipal bond and corporate bonds. Extremely risky instruments with high yield are usually called junk bonds.
Economics is very concerned with yields and related money supply questions. A key issue is the contrast with ecological yield: some people advocate a monetary reform to ensure that the requirement to repay global debt does not reduce the Earth's carrying capacity or carbon sink capacity. If the payments of economic yield to holders of global debt exceed that which can be borne by the natural renewal of the Earth, (for instance, its current solar income) that is an energy subsidy. These subsidies typically come from fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources. Full cost accounting for these versus renewable resources may limit the yield that can be guaranteed to holders of debt instruments.
In practice, this is an issue with money supply and monetary policy and does not affect each individual holder of a bond or other debt, exce
