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From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).

yield (third-person singular simple present yields, present participle yielding, simple past yielded or (obsolete) yold, past participle yielded or (obsolete) yolden)

1. To give.
   1. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
      • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

        God 'ild [yield] you, sir!

      • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

        Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.

      • 1623 January 5 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Spanish Curat”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene v:

        God yield thee, and God thank ye.

      • 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., , →OCLC, page 38:

        Heaven yield her for it, but in me put force / To weary her ears with one continuous prayer, / Until she let me fly discaged to sweep / In ever-highering eagle-circles up / To the great Sun of Glory, […]

   2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
      • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

        Vines yield nectar.

      • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Job 24:5:

        The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

   3. To give, or give forth, (anything).
      • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

        […] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.

      • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry:

        Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.

2. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
   1. To give as demanded; to relinquish.

      They refuse to yield to the enemy.

      • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

        Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes, / I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee: / To be partaker of thy good or ill, / As long as life maintaines Theridimas.

      • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

        I'll make him yield the crown.

      • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

        Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.

   2. To give way; to allow another to pass first.

      Yield the right of way to pedestrians.

   3. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
      • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XL, page 62:

        ⁠For though my nature rarely yields
        ⁠To that vague fear implied in death;
        ⁠Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath,
        The howlings from forgotten fields; […]

      • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

        He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell headlong into the room.

   4. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
   5. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
      • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

        I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.

3. To produce.
   1. To produce as return, as from an investment.

      Historically, that security yields a high return.

   2. (mathematics) To produce as a result.

      Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

   3. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

      Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

• submit - To fully surrender
• capitulate - To end all resistance, may imply a compensation with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope
• succumb - To fully surrender, because of helplessness and extreme weakness, to the leader of an opposing force
• relent - A yielding because of pity or mercy
• defer - A voluntary submitting out of respect, reverence or affection
• give way - To succumb to persistent persuasion.
• surrender - To give up into the power, control, or possession of another
• cede - To give up, give way, give away; to bow.
• give up - To surrender
• produce - To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.
• bear - To produce something, such as fruit or crops
• supply - To provide (something), to make (something) available for use
• give in
• to trade away - to let others get hold of a property or right of yours.

From Middle English ȝeld, from Old English ġield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).

yield (countable and uncountable, plural yields)

1. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
2. A product; the quantity of something produced.
   1. (agriculture) measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.

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

   2. (forestry, fishery) the harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
   3. (chemistry) the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
   4. (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
   5. (hydrology) the volume of water escaping from a spring.
   6. (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
4. The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
5. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
   • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

     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.

6. (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

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Unadapted borrowing from English yield.^[1][2]

yield f or m (plural yields)

1. (finance) yield (the current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond)