yield to (someone or something)

1. To allow someone or something to move in front of or before oneself; to give someone or something the right of way. This sign means you have to yield to oncoming traffic. I could have gone first, but I decided to yield to them because they were carrying such a heavy load.

2. To submit or give in to someone or something; to relinquish victory to someone or something. He yielded to his opponent after being put in a chokehold. We will never yield to enemy forces—we will fight until there isn't a single one of us left standing!

3. To allow oneself to be convinced, persuaded, overcome, etc., by some person or force. I managed to stay off cigarettes for about a week before finally yielding to temptation. I hadn't meant for things to go so far on our first date, but I couldn't help but yield to his charming words and smoldering eyes.

4. To allow someone or something to have or take something; to sacrifice, concede, or relinquish something to someone or something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "yield" and "to." Remember to yield right-of-way to the other driver if you're stopped at a stop sign. I was forced to yield the land to the banks because of the mortgage my father had taken out on it during the recession.

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yield something to someone

1. . to give the right-of-way to someone. You must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians. You failed to yield the right-of-way to the oncoming car. 2. to give up something to someone. The army yielded the territory to the invading army. We yielded the territory to the government.

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yield to someone

1. to let someone go ahead; to give someone the right-of-way. Please yield to the next speaker. She yielded to the next speaker.

2. to give in to someone. She found it hard to yield to her husband in an argument. I will yield to no one.

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yield to

1. To give oneself up to someone, as in defeat: The platoon chose to fight to the end and would not yield to the enemy.

2. To give way to some pressure or force: The door yielded to a gentle push.

3. To give way to some argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty: I'm dieting, but I sometimes yield to temptation and eat a cookie.

4. To give up one's place, as to one that is superior: The moderator opened the conference and then yielded to the chairperson.

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References in periodicals archive

The interest return, or the yield to maturity, on Treasury bills results from the purchase price being lower than the face value that is promised to be returned on maturity, so the difference is effectively the interest payment.

Connecting the dots: a yield curve perspective on New Zealand's interest rates

However, they do alter the method of amortizing capitalized debt issuance costs to conform generally to the constant yield to maturity method for OID.

Capitalizing and amortizing debt issuance costs

Most studies addressing progress in yield over time have used yield of historical genotypes grown in the same environment (Fischer and Wall, 1976; Sayre et al., 1997) or have used mean yield to examine progress over time in highly productive environments (Calderini et al., 1995; Kulshrestha and Jain, 1982).

Progress in breeding wheat for yield and adaptation in global drought affected environments. (Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology)

The sensitivity of the quantum yield to the fluorophore microenvironment variability is well established making quantum yield a difficult property to match.

The Development of Fluorescence Intensity Standards

Strong demand for treasuries pushed the nominal benchmark thirty-year Treasury yield to record lows, while two-year through ten-year Treasury yields declined below the 5.50 percent federal funds target rate.

Treasury and Federal Reserve foreign exchange operations

As the fanfare over their introduction continues to wane, investors may demand some extra yield to compensate for what is beginning to look like a relatively illiquid secondary market.

Why inflation-indexed bonds are a bad deal for corporate investors

An example: A few years ago, some executives I know bought Washington Power municipal bonds that carried an 11.2 percent yield to maturity and sold for $130.

The all-weather bond portfolio

- Assume a corporation issues an applicable instrument at the beginning of the year with an issue price of $100 and a yield to maturity of 20 percent in a month when the AFR is 9 percent.

Debt or equity? New pathways - another dead end or the yellow brick road?

In the case of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah witnessed 18.5% expansion in hotel rooms' yield to $194 on a 7% growth in occupancy (80%) and 9.4% in average room rate to $242.

Doha hotel room yield shrinks in 2012 on lower rate

1.163-13, based on a constant yield to the remarketing date (which period was only one third of the stated maturity).

FSA forgoes conventional wisdom in characterizing a remarketing payment under a callable/puttable bond

Voight and Weber (1960) determined that lines selected by early generation testing were superior in yield to lines selected in bulk and pedigree methods.

Potential of Using Plant Row Yield Trials to Predict Soybean Yield

For example, government agency securities have been a good way to add yield to a portfolio in the past, but the incremental yield offered by agency securities versus Treasuries is low right now--10 basis points or less in most instances.

The trick to managing cash? Be creative

Qatar hotels' occupancy fell 9% to 66% and the average room rate by 4.7% to $264, thus leading to a 16.4% plunge in rooms' yield to $175 year-to-date (YTD) in March this year, said the E&Y 'Middle East Hotel Benchmark Survey', which was released yesterday.

Hotels record low occupancy in first quarter