yield

  1. Verb.  (archaic, obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  2. Verb.  To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  3. Verb.  To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
  5. Verb.  To produce as return, as from an investment.
  6. Verb.  (legal) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
  7. Verb.  (mathematics) To produce as a result.
  8. Noun.  (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
  9. Noun.  A product; the quantity of something produced.

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