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  • 41yield —    to copulate with a man outside marriage    Literally, to submit, and of venerable ancestry:     There is no woman, Euphues, but she will yield in time. (Lyly, 1579, quoted in ODEP) My sisterly remorse confuted mine honour, And I did yield to… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 42yield — 1 verb 1 CROPS/PROFITS (T) to produce crops, profits etc: The land yielded a good wheat crop. | Mining shares often yield a high level of return. 2 RESULT (T) to produce a result, answer, or a piece of information: Careful analysis yielded the… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 43yield curve risk — The risk to a holder of financial instruments that a change in prevailing interest rates will not affect the prices or yields of the same instruments in exactly equal amounts for each available term. For example, an increase in prevailing… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 44yield up — PHRASAL VERB If you yield up a secret, you reveal it. [FORMAL] → See also yield 2), 6) [V P n (not pron)] ...asking law firms to yield up their deepest secrets …

    English dictionary

  • 45yield-per-recruit analysis — analysis of how growth, natural mortality, and fishing interact to determine the best size of the fish at which to start fishing them, and the most appropriate level of fishing mortality. The yield per recruit models do not consider the… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 46Yield Spread Premium — A form of compensation that a mortgage broker, acting as the intermediary, receives from the original lender for selling an interest rate to a borrower that is above the lender s par rate for which the borrower qualifies. The yield spread premium …

    Investment dictionary

  • 47yield point — A measure of the amount of stress needed to permanently deform a material. When a material is stressed beyond its yield point or elastic limit, it will not return to its original shape and size when the stress is removed. The yield point of a… …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 48yield the ghost — verb To give up the ghost. and often did I strive / To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood / Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth …

    Wiktionary

  • 49yield — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abdicate, abjure, accede, accept, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, acknowledge, acknowledge defeat, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, administer, admit, afford, aftermath, agree, agree provisionally,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 50yield point — can be defined as the point where a tensile test piece begins to extend permanently. If the load is reduced to zero, the test piece will not return to its original length …

    Mechanics glossary