yield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Forms: form: yields
Etymology: Verb 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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid; matter; count; be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde.
Noun 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”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian jild, Dutch geld, Low German and German Geld, Danish gæld, Swedish gäld, Icelandic gjald. See also geld.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of countries more favoured by climate than Britain their earliest trade with the foreigner which history has to record is usually in the surface products of the earth—in corn or wine, in the yields of the olive-grove or the orchard.
ref: 1902, Traill, H. D.; Mann, James Saumarez, Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day, page lxxxviii:
glosses: A product.
examples: text: Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The quantity of something produced.
Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The quantity of something produced.
The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
qualifier: fishery
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quantity of something produced.
The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The quantity of something produced.
The volume of water escaping from a spring.
glosses: The quantity of something produced.
The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
examples: text: A yield curve inversion happens when long-term bond yields fall below short-term bond yields. That rarely occurs. Before this month, that section of the yield curve hadn’t inverted since 2007, just before the Great Recession.
ref: 2019 August 22, “What is the yield curve and why it matters”, in CNN Business:
text: When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.
ref: 2022 October 8, Julia Horowitz, “How meltdown in a $1 trillion market brought the UK to the brink of a financial crisis”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The quantity of something produced.
Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020, page 68:
topics: law
glosses: The quantity of something produced.
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: yield strength of a material.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
glosses: Payment; money; tribute.
Synonyms: crop
fruits
gain
harvest
produce
return
Derived terms: word: ayield
word: foryield
word: gainyield
word: misyield
word: overyielding
word: unyielding
word: upyield
word: yielder
word: yielding
word: yieldly
sense: Expressions
word: a bad tree does not yield good apples
sense: Expressions
word: dial-a-yield
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word: high-yield
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word: normalized yield
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word: par yield
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word: sustained yield
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word: yield burning
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word: yield co
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word: yield curve
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word: yield line
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word: yield sign
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word: yield strain
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word: yield strength
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word: yield stress
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word: yield the field
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word: yield the ghost
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word: yield-to-maturity
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word: yield to maturity
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word: yield up
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word: yield up the ghost
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word: yield value
Related terms: capitulate
defer
relent
stop
submit
succumb
unrelent