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yieldnoun an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or propertythe stock's yield has increased over the years earnings, gain(s), income, incoming(s), proceeds, profit, return, revenue killing, windfallsalary, take-home pay, tips, wagesbankroll, capital, coffers, exchequer, finances, funds, money, pocket, pocketbook, resources, wherewithal charge, cost, disbursement, expenditures, expenses, outgo, outlay something produced by physical or intellectual effortwheat farmers were able to increase the yield per acre substantially affair, fruit, handiwork, labor, output, produce, product, production, thing, work article, commodity, entry, objectgoods, line, merchandise, wareshandcraft, handicraftaftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, corollary, development, effect, issue, outcome, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, upshotby-product, derivative, offshoot, offspring, outgrowth, residual, side effect(also side reaction), spin-off the total amount collected or obtained especially at one timethe yield from the police department's buyback program for firearms was staggering bounty, catch, haul, take bagearnings, gain, gross, income, net, payoff, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, revenue, winningsbooty, loot, plunder, spoils, swagappropriation, collection deduction, loss, subtraction to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)I finally yielded to temptation and had a bowl of ice cream bow, cave (in), give in, submit, succumb, surrender cater (to), gratify, indulge, wallowacquiesce (to), concede (to)buckle (under), knuckle undergive over (to) hold off, resist battle, breast, combat, confront, counter, defy, face, fight, meet, object, oppose, repelthwart, withstandrejectbridle, check, constrain, curb, inhibit, restrain, stifle to produce as revenueI expect that stock to yield at least 14% profit this year bear, give, pay, return bring in, netafford, furnish, provide, supplypay off to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)after initially balking at the order, the soldier yielded when the commanding officer threatened a formal charge of insubordination blink, bow, budge, capitulate, concede, give in, knuckle under, quit, relent, submit, succumb, surrender acquiescedefer say uncle, throw in the towel(also throw in the sponge) resist contend, fight, hold offbattle, breast, combat, confront, counter, defy, face, meet, object, oppose, repelthwart, withstand to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)the sort of embarrassing question that seldom yields an honest answer beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, engender, generate, induce, invoke, make, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work conduce (to), contribute (to)decide, determinebegin, establish, father, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set, set up, startadvance, cultivate, develop, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promoteenact, render, turn out bring forth, give rise to impede, limit, restrictclamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, dampen, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppressarrest, check, control, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrain, retardcan(slang), kill, snuff (out), stillabolish, demolish, destroy, extinguish, liquidate, quench to fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe door soon yielded to the battering ram buckle, cave (in), collapse, crumple, founder, give, go, go out, implode, tumble deflate, flatten, melt, melt downbreak, break down, conk (out), crash, die, fail, give out, stallburst, shatter, smash, splinter, splitcrack, crumble, pop, snap give way inflate, rise, swell to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duressrefusing to yield the city to enemy troops cede, cough up, deliver, give up, hand over, lay down, relinquish, render, surrender, turn in, turn over commit, consign, entrust(also intrust), transferforfeit, release, waiveabnegate, renounce, resignabandon, desert, discard, forsake, part (with), shed keep, retain, withhold to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedlyshe yielded herself to temptation and booked a month-long vacation in the Bahamas like she'd wanted to for years abandon, deliver, give up, indulge, surrender overdo, overindulgebask, luxuriate, revel, roll, wallow deny abstain (from), eschew, forbear, forgo(also forego), refrain (from)check, inhibit, restrain v.yield, submit, capitulate, succumb, relent, defer mean to give way to someone or something that one can no longer resist.yield may apply to any sort or degree of giving way before force, argument, persuasion, or entreaty.yields too easily in any argument submit suggests full surrendering after resistance or conflict to the will or control of another.a repentant sinner vowing to submit to the will of God capitulate stresses the fact of ending all resistance and may imply either a coming to terms (as with an adversary) or hopelessness in the face of an irresistible opposing force.officials capitulated to the protesters' demands succumb implies weakness and helplessness to the one that gives way or an overwhelming power to the opposing force.a stage actor succumbing to the lure of Hollywood relent implies a yielding through pity or mercy by one who holds the upper hand.finally relented and let the children stay up late defer implies a voluntary yielding or submitting out of respect or reverence for or deference and affection toward another.I defer to your expertise in these matters Cf. relinquish. before the 12th century |