The total amount of money that can be madefrom an investment.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
yield (verb)transitive verb
1.
archaic - recompense reward
2.
to give or render as fitting, rightfully owed, or required
3.
to give up possession of on claim or demand as
a) to give up (as one's breath) and so die
b) to surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another hand over possession of
c) to surrender or submit (oneself) to another
d) to give (oneself) up to an inclination, temptation, or habit
e) to relinquish one's possession of (as a position of advantage or point of superiority) - yield precedence
4.
a) to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation - the tree always yields good fruit
b) to produce or furnish as return - this soil should yield good crops
c) (1) to produce as return from an expenditure or investment furnish as profit or interest - a bond that yields 12 percent
(2) to produce as revenue - bring in the tax is expected to yield millions
5.
intransitive verb
to give up (as a hit or run) in baseball - yielded two runs in the third inning
1.
to be fruitful or productive - bear produce
2.
to give up and cease resistance or contention - submit succumb facing an enemy who would not yield yielding to temptation
3.
to give way to pressure or influence submit to urging, persuasion, or entreaty
4.
to give way under physical force (as bending, stretching, or breaking)
5.
a) to give place or precedence acknowledge the superiority of someone else
b) to be inferior - our dictionary yields to none
c) to give way to or become succeeded by someone or something else
6.
to relinquish the floor of a legislative assembly
1.
something - yielded product , especially the amount or quantity produced or returned - yield of wheat per acre
2.
the capacity of produce - yielding
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
yield (noun)1.
an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property
SYNONYMS:
earnings, gain(s), incoming(s), proceeds, profit, return, revenue, yieldRELATED WORDS:
killing, windfall; salary, take-home pay, tips, wages; bankroll, capital, coffers, exchequer, finances, funds, money, pocket, pocketbook, resources, wherewithalNEAR ANTONYMS:
charge, cost, disbursement, expenditures, expenses, outgo, outlay2.
something produced by physical or intellectual effort
SYNONYMS:
affair, fruit, handiwork, labor, output, produce, production, thing, work, yieldRELATED WORDS:
article, commodity, entry, object; goods, line, merchandise, wares; handcraft, handicraft; aftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, corollary, development, effect, issue, outcome, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, upshot; by-product, derivative, offshoot, offspring, outgrowth, residual, side effect ( side reaction), spin-off3.
the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time
SYNONYMS:
bounty, catch, take, yieldRELATED WORDS:
bag; earnings, gain, gross, income, net, payoff, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, revenue, winnings; booty, loot, plunder, spoils, swag; appropriation, collectionNEAR ANTONYMS:
deduction, loss, subtraction1.
to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)
SYNONYMS:
bow, cave (in), give in, submit, succumb, surrenderRELATED WORDS:
cater (to), gratify, indulge, wallow; acquiesce (to), concede (to); buckle (under), knuckle under; give over (to)NEAR ANTONYMS:
battle, breast, combat, confront, counter, defy, face, fight, meet, object, oppose, repel; thwart, withstand; reject; bridle, check, constrain, curb, inhibit, restrain, stifle2.
to produce as revenue
SYNONYMS:
bear, give, pay, returnRELATED WORDS:
bring in, net; afford, furnish, provide, supply; pay off3.
to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)
SYNONYMS:
blink, bow, budge, capitulate, concede, give in, knuckle under, quit, relent, submit, succumb, surrenderRELATED WORDS:
acquiesce; deferNEAR ANTONYMS:
contend, fight, hold off; battle, breast, combat, confront, counter, defy, face, meet, object, oppose, repel; thwart, withstand4.
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)
SYNONYMS:
beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effectuate, engender, generate, induce, invoke, make, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yieldRELATED WORDS:
conduce (to), contribute (to); decide, determine; begin, establish, father, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set, set up, start; advance, cultivate, develop, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promote; enact, render, turn outNEAR ANTONYMS:
impede, limit, restrict; clamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, dampen, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress; arrest, check, control, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrain, retard; can [], kill, snuff (out), still; abolish, demolish, destroy, extinguish, liquidate, quench5.
to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure
SYNONYMS:
buckle, cave (in), crumple, founder, give, go, go out, implode, tumble, yieldRELATED WORDS:
deflate, flatten, melt, melt down; break, break down, conk (out), crash, die, fail, give out, stall; burst, shatter, smash, splinter, split; crack, crumble, pop, snapNEAR ANTONYMS:
inflate, rise, swell6.
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress
SYNONYMS:
cede, cough up, deliver, give up, hand over, lay down, relinquish, render, turn in, turn over, yieldRELATED WORDS:
commit, consign, entrust ( intrust), transfer; forfeit, release, waive; abnegate, renounce, resign; abandon, desert, discard, forsake, part (with), shedNEAR ANTONYMS:
keep, retain, withhold7.
to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedly
SYNONYMS:
deliver, give up, indulge, surrender, yieldRELATED WORDS:
overdo, overindulge; bask, luxuriate, revel, roll, wallowNEAR ANTONYMS:
abstain (from), eschew, forbear, forgo ( forego), refrain (from); check, inhibit, restrain
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