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Meaning Of Yield

  1. v. t.
    To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
  2. v. t.
    To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  3. v. t.
    To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
  4. v. t.
    To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
  5. v. t.
    To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
  6. v. t.
    To give a reward to; to bless.
  7. v. i.
    To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
  8. v. i.
    To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
  9. v. i.
    To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.
  10. v. i.
    To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
  11. n.
    Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.



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