yield
pronunciation
How to pronounce yield in British English:
UK [jiːld]
How to pronounce yield in American English:
US [jiːld]
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- Noun:
- production of a certain amount
- an amount of a product
- the income arising from land or other property
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
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- Verb:
- be the cause or source of
- end resistance, especially under pressure or force
- give or supply
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- bring about
- be willing to concede
- be fatally overwhelmed
- bring in
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- cease opposition; stop fighting
- consent reluctantly
Word Origin
- yield
- yield: [OE] Yield is descended from prehistoric Germanic *gelthan ‘pay’, which also produced German gelten ‘pay’ (German geld ‘money’ comes from the same base). It originally meant ‘pay’ in English too, and it seems the sense ‘surrender’, which emerged in the 13th century, may be due to the influence of French rendre ‘give’, which is used reflexively for ‘surrender’.
- yield (v.)
- Old English gieldan (West Saxon), geldan (Anglian) "to pay, pay for; reward, render; worship, serve, sacrifice to" (class III strong verb; past tense geald, past participle golden), from Proto-Germanic *geldan "pay" (cognates: Old Saxon geldan "to be worth," Old Norse gjaldo "to repay, return," Middle Dutch ghelden, Dutch gelden "to cost, be worth, concern," Old High German geltan, German gelten "to be worth," Gothic fra-gildan "to repay, requite"). This is from PIE *gheldh- "to pay," a root found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic (and Old Church Slavonic žledo, Lithuanian geliuoti might be Germanic loan-words). "[T]he only generally surviving senses on the Continent are 'to be worth; to be valid, to concern, apply to,' which are not represented at all in the English word" [OED]; sense development in English comes via use of this word to translate Latin reddere, French rendre. Sense of "give in return for labor or capital invested" is from early 14c. Intransitive sense of "give oneself up, submit, surrender (to a foe)" is from c. 1300. Related to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gelt, Dutch geld, German Geld "money." Related: Yielded; yielding.
- yield (n.)
- Old English gield "payment, sum of money; service, offering, worship;" from the source of yield (v.). Extended sense of "production" (as of crops) is first attested mid-15c. Earliest English sense survives in financial "yield from investments."
Example
- 1. The company also offers a 3.9 percent yield .
- 2. Economic restructuring can take years to yield dividends .
- 3. Yield alone is not the whole story .
- 4. Some business people reckon mr sarkozy 's interventions may yield results .
- 5. It cannot yield to greek requests to renegotiate the programme .