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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yield/jiːld/
▶verb
- 1 produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).
■ produce or deliver (a result or gain).
■ generate (a specified financial return).
- 2 give way to demands or pressure; submit.
■ relinquish possession of.
■ concede (a point of dispute).
■ chiefly N. Amer. give way to other traffic.
- 3 (of a mass or structure) give way under force or pressure.
– derivatives
yielder noun,
yielding adjective,
yieldingly adverb.
yielder noun,
yielding adjective,
yieldingly adverb.
– origin OE g(i)eldan ‘pay, repay’, of Gmc origin.
'yield' also found in these Oxford entries:
accede
- candleberry
- candlenut
- cease
- cede
- chaulmoogra
- cistus
- colocynth
- concede
- creosote bush
- cringe
- crop
- fall
- give
- green revolution
- growth stock
- guild
- harvest
- hemp
- hold
- indulge
- madder
- milkwort
- nickel
- onion set
- opopanax
- pay
- perform
- prospect
- red sandalwood
- return
- rhatany
- ride
- rosewood
- safflower
- sago
- scammony
- second ballot
- silkworm
- smilax
- sola
- streptomycete
- submit
- sunflower
- sustained yield
- tea tree
- tussore moth
- valonia
- way
- weak
Forum discussions with the word(s) "yield" in the title:
A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request . . . .
I yield back the balance of my time
make it yield something on which to live
phrase - yield/give? the floor to sb (at a presentation)
sustain forcing the US to yield to some solicitations
team work will yield the optimal advice
the yield of scores of scrabbling feet
This field yield a lot of rice.
to yield the floor
to yield to the dark side
waive, yield, preempt
whose affection failed to yield interest
yield
yield
yield / return
yield a robust body of knowledge
yield at the stop sign
yield himself 10 seconds
yield leads
yield my seat to him--?
yield the [right-of-way] to pedestrians
Yield versus Give way
yield-hungry public
Yield????
I yield back the balance of my time
make it yield something on which to live
phrase - yield/give? the floor to sb (at a presentation)
sustain forcing the US to yield to some solicitations
team work will yield the optimal advice
the yield of scores of scrabbling feet
This field yield a lot of rice.
to yield the floor
to yield to the dark side
waive, yield, preempt
whose affection failed to yield interest
yield
yield
yield / return
yield a robust body of knowledge
yield at the stop sign
yield himself 10 seconds
yield leads
yield my seat to him--?
yield the [right-of-way] to pedestrians
Yield versus Give way
yield-hungry public
Yield????
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