Real Dictionary

yield
verb: If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them.

yield in Accounting
noun: The yield of an investment is the amount of money or profit that it produces.

yield in American English
to produce
intransitive verb: to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear
noun: the act of yielding or producing
transitive verb: to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation

yield in British English
noun: the result, product, or amount yielded
verb: to give forth or supply (a product, result, etc), esp by cultivation, labour, etc; produce or bear

yield in Chemical Engineering
noun: A yield is a measure of how efficient a process is. It is expressed as the amount of product which you get as a percentage of that which you could get if conversion were complete.

yield in Finance
noun: The yield of an investment is the amount of money or profit that it produces.

yield in the Pharmaceutical Industry
noun: A yield is a quantity of a product obtained in a reaction or series of reactions, usually expressed as a percentage of the quantity that is theoretically obtainable.