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Type Words
Synonyms issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings
Type of income
Has types rent, payback, economic rent
Type Words
Synonyms afford, give
Type of supply, render, provide, furnish
Has types provide, open, allow for, open up, leave, allow
Verb group give
Type Words
Synonyms give way
Type of change


The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram.
Type Words
Synonyms ease up, give, give way, move over
Type of move
Verb group give up, abandon
Type Words
Synonyms buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb
Type of go for, consent, accept
Has types submit, give in, bow, defer, accede
Derivation yielding
Type Words
Synonyms generate, give, render, return
Type of produce, create, make
Verb group give, establish


This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn.
Type Words
Synonyms give
Type of stretch
Type Words
Synonyms relent, soften
Has types truckle
Type Words
Synonyms cede, concede, grant
Type of give
Type Words
Synonyms output, production
Type of indefinite quantity
Has types picking, pick
Type Words
Synonyms concede, grant
Type of agree, concord, concur, hold
Has types forgive
Derivation yielding
Type Words
Synonyms bear, pay
Type of earn, take in, bring in, realise, gain, pull in, clear, make, realize
Has types pay off, clear, net
Type Words
Synonyms output
Type of production
Has types harvest, crop
Type Words
Synonyms fruit
Type of product, production
Type Words
Synonyms succumb
Type of buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it
Type Words
Synonyms give
Type of make, create
Verb group render, return, generate, give
Type Words
Has types surrender, fall, give up
Derivation yielder

Examples of yield

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Investing in diversified high-yield funds that buy abroad might be a better bet.
From the businessweek.com
Investors need only a little bit of optimism to invest in the high-yield sector.
From the businessweek.com
The yield on 10-year Treasuries has risen from 2.1% two months ago to 3% on Mar.
From the businessweek.com
He expects the 10-year yield to fall to 7.50% over the next four to five months.
From the online.wsj.com
Canada's two-year bond yield was at 1.421% late Monday, from 1.442% late Friday.
From the online.wsj.com
Its yield is helped to set interest rates on mortgages and other consumer loans.
From the sfgate.com
Nebraska occupies a transition zone, with little change in yield due to no-till.
From the sciencedaily.com
You also have a fund where you can offer much more, but you get less of a yield.
From the forbes.com
High yield bonds are issued by companies that are judged more likely to default.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
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  • Output: production of a certain amount
  • Be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
  • Return: the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"
  • Give way: end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
  • Render: 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"
  • Concede: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
  • Yield is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on February 3, 1998 through Epic Records. Following a short tour for its previous album, No Code (1996), Pearl Jam went into the studio in 1997 to record its follow-up. ...
  • In chemistry, yield, also referred to as chemical yield and reaction yield, is the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.Vogel, A.I., Tatchell, A.R., Furnis, B.S., Hannaford, A.J. and P.W.G. Smith. Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, 5th Edition. Prentice Hall, 1996. ...
  • The yield strength or yield point of a material is defined in engineering and materials science as the stress at which a material begins to deform plastically. Prior to the yield point the material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied stress is removed. ...