yieldverb/jiːld/

• 1

  To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

  • This method generally yields better results.
  • The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.
• 2

  To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

  • Historically, that security yields a high return.
• 3

  mathematicssciencesTo give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

  • Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
• 4

  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

  • Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
• 5

  obsoleteTo give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

  • God 'ild [yield] you, sir!
  • Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.
• 6

  To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

  • They refuse to yield to the enemy.
  • Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
• 7

  To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

  • Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
  • It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction.
• 8

  To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

  • I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
  • One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

yieldnoun/jiːld/

• 1

  A product.

  • In the case of countries more favoured by climate than Britain their earliest trade with the foreigner which history has to record is usually in the surface products of the earth—in corn or wine, in the yields of the olive-grove or the orchard.
• 2

  agriculturebusinesslifestyleThe quantity of something produced.

  • Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
• 3

  businessforestryThe quantity of something produced.

• 4

  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe quantity of something produced.

• 5

  geographyhydrologynatural-sciencesThe quantity of something produced.

• 6

  The quantity of something produced.

• 7

  businessfinanceThe quantity of something produced.

  • A yield curve inversion happens when long-term bond yields fall below short-term bond yields. That rarely occurs. Before this month, that section of the yield curve hadn’t inverted since 2007, just before the Great Recession.
  • When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.
• 8

  lawThe quantity of something produced.

  • Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.