Usually means: Return on investment or asset.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. yield: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yield: Merriam-Webster
  3. yield: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yield: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yield: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yield: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yield, yield: Wordnik
  8. yield: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. yield: Wiktionary
  10. yield: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yield: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yield: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yield: Dictionary.com
  14. yield (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. yield: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Yield (Pearl Jam album), Yield (album), Yield (casting), Yield (chemistry), Yield (college admissions), Yield (disambiguation), Yield (engineering), Yield (finance), Yield (multithreading), Yield (wine), Yield: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Yield: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. yield: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. yield: Rhymezone
  20. yield: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. yield: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Yield (on the road): American-Britih Dictionary
  23. yield: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. yield: FreeDictionary.org
  25. yield: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. yield: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. yield: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. yield: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. yield: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. yield: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Yield: bizterms.net
  9. Yield: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. Yield: Harvey Financial
  11. Yield: Moneyterms
  12. Terms related to the Federal Reserve, banking and economics (No longer online)
  13. Yield: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  14. Yield: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  15. yield: Finance-Glossary.com
  16. Yield: Inflation Glossary
  17. Yield: Investopedia
  18. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  19. Yield, Yield: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  20. yield: Legal dictionary
  21. yield: Financial dictionary
  22. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
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  24. Yield: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  25. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yield (engineering), yield: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Yield (engineering), yield: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. YIELD: Acronym Finder
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  4. yield: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. yield: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yield: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yield: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (13 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Yield: Building pathology glossary
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  5. yield: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  6. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  7. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Yield: Fiberglass Glossary
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  10. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
verb:  To produce as return from an investment.
verb:  (mathematics) To produce as a result.
verb:  (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
verb:  (obsolete) To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
verb:  To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
verb:  (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
verb:  (computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.
verb:  (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
verb:  (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
noun:  A product.
noun:  The quantity of something produced.
noun:  (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
noun:  (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
noun:  (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
noun:  (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
noun:  The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
noun:  (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
noun:  (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
noun:  (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
noun:  (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
noun:  (obsolete) Payment; tribute.

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