yields
Because it is a word with a single syllable, yields is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofyields
- To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
Example: "Yield the right of way to pedestrians."
- To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
Example: "They refuse to yield to the enemy."
- To give, or give forth, (anything).
- To give way; to succumb to a force.
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
Example: "Historically, that security yields a high return."
- To produce as a result.
Example: "Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."
- To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
Example: "Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."
- (of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- Payment; tribute.
- A product; the quantity of something produced.
Example: "Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit."
- The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
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