yielding

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.

▶noun an amount or result yielded.

– derivatives
yielder noun,
yielding adjective,
yieldingly adverb.

– origin OE g(i)eldan ‘pay, repay’, of Gmc origin.