yield

yield is a 5-letter English word with 28 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
3. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
5. transitive verb. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
6. transitive verb. To give a reward to; to bless.
7. intransitive verb. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
8. intransitive verb. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
9. intransitive verb. 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. intransitive verb. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
11. noun. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
12. noun. production of a certain amount

    Synonyms: output

13. noun. an amount of a product

    Synonyms: fruit

14. noun. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

    "the average return was about 5%"

    Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings

15. noun. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

    "production was up in the second quarter"

    Synonyms: output, production

16. verb. end resistance, as under pressure or force

    "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

17. verb. consent reluctantly

    Synonyms: succumb

18. verb. be willing to concede

    "I grant you this much"

    Synonyms: concede, grant

19. verb. cease opposition; stop fighting
20. verb. be flexible under stress of physical force

    "This material doesn't give"

    Synonyms: give

21. verb. give or supply

    "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"

    "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"

    Synonyms: generate, give, render, return

22. verb. cause to happen or be responsible for

    "His two singles gave the team the victory"

    Synonyms: give

23. verb. move in order to make room for someone for something

    "The park gave way to a supermarket"

    "`Move over,' he told the crowd"

    Synonyms: give

24. verb. bring in

    "interest-bearing accounts"

    "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"

    Synonyms: bear, pay

25. verb. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

    Synonyms: cede, concede, grant

26. verb. be the cause or source of

    "He gave me a lot of trouble"

    "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"

    Synonyms: afford, give

27. verb. be fatally overwhelmed

    Synonyms: succumb

28. verb. give in, as to influence or pressure

    Synonyms: relent, soften

Synonyms

output, fruit, issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, production, succumb, concede, grant, give, generate, render, bear, pay, cede, afford, relent, soften

Common word forms

yields, yielded, yielden, yielder, yielding, yieldable

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