- yield
- [[t]jɪ͟əld[/t]]
♦♦♦yields, yielding, yielded1) VERB If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them. [FORMAL]
[V to n] Carmen yielded to general pressure and grudgingly took the child to a specialist...
[V to n] I yielded to an impulse...
If the government does not yield, it should face sufficient military force to ensure its certain and swift defeat.
Syn:2) VERB If you yield something that you have control of or responsibility for, you allow someone else to have control or responsibility for it. [FORMAL][V n] He may yield control...
[V n to n] The President is now under pressure to yield power to the republics.
Syn:Yield up means the same as yield.V P n (not pron)
Giulio Andreotti yielded up the prime ministership last summer.3) VERB If one thing yields to another thing, it is replaced by this other thing. [FORMAL][V to n] Boston's traditional drab brick was slow to yield to the modern glass palaces of so many American urban areas.
Syn:give way to4) VERB If a moving person or a vehicle yields, they slow down or stop in order to allow other people or vehicles to pass in front of them. [AM][V to n] When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers.
(in BRIT, usually use give way)...examples of common signs like No Smoking or Yield.
5) VERB If something yields, it breaks or moves position because force or pressure has been put on it.He reached the massive door of the barn and pushed. It yielded.
6) VERB If an area of land yields a particular amount of a crop, this is the amount that is produced. You can also say that a number of animals yield a particular amount of meat.[V n] Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth $1.75 billion.
Syn:Yield up means the same as yield.V P n (not pron)
The shallow sea bed yields up an abundance of food.7) N-COUNT: with supp A yield is the amount of food produced on an area of land or by a number of animals....improving the yield of the crop...
Polluted water lessens crop yields.
8) VERB If a tax or investment yields an amount of money or profit, this money or profit is obtained from it.[V n] It yielded a profit of at least $36 million.
9) N-COUNT: with supp, oft N of amount, N on n A yield is the amount of money or profit produced by an investment. [TECHNICAL]...a yield of 4%...
The lira strengthened because of high yields available in the Italian cash market.
...the yield on a bank's investments.
10) VERB If something yields a result or piece of information, it produces it.[V n] This research has been in progress since 1961 and has yielded a great number of positive results...
[V n] His trip to Melbourne had yielded a lot of information.
Phrasal Verbs:- yield up
English dictionary. 2008.
