Definition of: yield

(yēld) v.t.
1. To give forth by a natural process, or as a result of labor or cultivation: The field will yield a good crop.
2. To give in return, as for investment; furnish: The bonds yield five percent interest.
3. To give up, as to superior power; surrender; relinquish: often with up: to yield a fortress; to yield oneself up to one's enemies.
4. To concede or grant: to yield precedence; to yield consent.
5. Obs. To pay, repay, or reward.
—v.i.
6. To provide a return; produce; bear.
7. To give up; submit; surrender.
8. To give way, as to pressure or force; bend, collapse, etc.
9. To assent or comply, as under compulsion; consent: We yielded to their persuasion.
10. To give place, as through inferiority or weakness: with to: We will yield to them in nothing. See synonyms under ALLOW, BEND¹, DEFER², OBEY, PRODUCE, SURRENDER.
—noun
1. The amount yielded; product; result, as of cultivation or mining.
2. The profit derived from invested capital.
3. The proceeds of a tax after the expenses of collection and administration have been deducted.
4. Mil. The explosive force of an atomic or thermonuclear bomb as expressed in kilotons or megatons. See synonyms under HARVEST, PRODUCT. [OE gieldan, geldan pay]
—yield′er noun