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What does yield mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word yield? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  3. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  4. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  5. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
  6. To produce as return, as from an investment.
  7. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
  8. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
  9. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  10. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
  2. A product; the quantity of something produced.
  3. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
  4. (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
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