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| 1. n. plural of yield |  |
| The agricultural yields were lower this year. | |
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| 1. v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. | |
| 2. v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. | |
| 3. v. To give way; to allow another to pass first. | |
| Yield the right of way to pedestrians. | |
| 4. v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. | |
| They refuse to yield to the enemy. | |
| 5. v. To give out, or give forth (anything). | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force. | |
| 7. v. To produce as return, as from an investment. | |
| Historically, that security yields a high return. | |
| 8. v. (mathematics) To produce as a result. | |
| Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7. | |
| 9. v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. | |
| Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-. | |
| 10. v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation. | |
| 11. v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. | |
| 12. n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute. | |
| 13. n. A product; the quantity of something produced. | |
| Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit. | |
| 14. n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. | |
| 15. n. (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. | |
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