yield

/jiːld/

verb

1
To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
2
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
3
To give way; to allow another to pass first.
“Yield the right of way to pedestrians.”
4
To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
“They refuse to yield to the enemy.”
5
To give, or give forth, (anything).
6
To give way; to succumb to a force.
7
To produce as return, as from an investment.
“Historically, that security yields a high return.”
8
To produce as a result.
“Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.”
9
To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
“Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.”
10
(of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
11
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

1
Payment; tribute.
2
A product; the quantity of something produced.
“Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.”
3
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
4
Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

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