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Yield Amount Yielded Land Number Produced Area Food

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A y____ is the amount of food produced on an area of land or by a number of animals.A yield is the amount of food produced on an area of land or by a number of animals.
...improving the yield of the crop.
Polluted water lessens crop yields.
word yield
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verb
If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them.
Will she yield to growing pressure for her to retire?
I yielded to an impulse.
Men of courage faced down injustice and refused to yield.
If you yield something that you have control of or responsibility for, you allow someone else to have control or responsibility for it.
He may yield control.
The Director is now under pressure to yield power to the shareholders.
He yielded up the prime ministership last summer.
If one thing yields to another thing, it is replaced by this other thing.
Boston's traditional drab brick was slow to yield to the modern glass palaces of so many American urban areas.
If a moving person or a vehicle yields, they slow down or stop in order to allow other people or vehicles to pass in front of them.
When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers.
...examples of common signs like No Smoking or Yield.
If something yields, it breaks or moves position because force or pressure has been put on it.
The door yielded easily when he pushed it.
If an area of land yields a particular amount of a crop, this is the amount that is produced. You can also say that a number of animals yield a particular amount of meat .
Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth $1.75 billion.
The shallow sea bed yields up an abundance of food.
If a tax or investment yields an amount of money or profit, this money or profit is obtained from it.
It yielded a profit of at least $36 million.
If something yields a result or piece of information, it produces it.
This research has yielded a great number of positive results.
His trip to Melbourne had yielded a lot of information.
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A yield is the amount of food produced on an area of land or by a number of animals.
...improving the yield of the crop.
Polluted water lessens crop yields.
A yield is the amount of money or profit produced by an investment.
...a yield of 4%.
The high yields available on the dividend shares made them attractive to private investors.
...the yield on a bank's investments.
inflections yieldsyieldingyielded
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