(yields, yielding, yielded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them. (FORMAL)
Will she yield to growing pressure for her to retire?...
If the government does not yield, it should face sufficient military force to ensure its certain and swift defeat.
= give in
VERB: V to n, V
2.
If you yield something that you have control of or responsibility for, you allow someone else to have control or responsibility for it. (FORMAL)
He may yield control...
= surrender
VERB: V n
3.
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; in BRIT, usually use give way
)
When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers.
...examples of common signs like No Smoking or Yield.
VERB: V to n, V
4.
If something yields, it breaks or moves position because force or pressure has been put on it.
The door yielded easily when he pushed it.
VERB: V
5.
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.
Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth $1.75 billion.
= produce
VERB: V n
6.
A yield is the amount of food produced on an area of land or by a number of animals.
Polluted water lessens crop yields.
N-COUNT: with supp
7.
If a tax or investment yields an amount of money or profit, this money or profit is obtained from it. (BUSINESS)
It yielded a profit of at least $36 million.
VERB: V n
8.
A yield is the amount of money or profit produced by an investment. (BUSINESS)
The high yields available on the dividend shares made them attractive to private investors.
...the yield on a bank's investments.
N-COUNT: with supp, oft N of amount, N on n
9.
If something yields a result or piece of information, it produces it.
This research has been in progress since 1961 and has yielded a great number of positive results...
VERB: V n