What does yielding mean?

Definitions for yielding
ˈyil dɪŋyield·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. giving up, yielding, surrendernoun

    a verbal act of admitting defeat

  2. concession, conceding, yieldingadjective

    the act of conceding or yielding

  3. yieldingadjective

    inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

    "a timid yielding person"

  4. yieldingadjective

    lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

    "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"

  5. yieldingadjective

    tending to give in or surrender or agree

    "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington

Wiktionary

  1. yieldingnoun

    a concession

  2. yieldingadjective

    docile, or inclined to give way to pressure

ChatGPT

  1. yielding

    Yielding generally refers to giving way under force or pressure, or surrendering to a certain influence, demand or authority. It can also mean to produce or generate a particular result or product. The exact meaning can vary based on context.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Yielding

    of Yield

  2. Yieldingadjective

    inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. YIELDING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Yielding is ranked #40856 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Yielding surname appeared 534 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Yielding.

    95.8% or 512 total occurrences were White.
    1.6% or 9 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1.3% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.1% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of yielding in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of yielding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of yielding in a Sentence

  1. Hunter Biden:

    Vladimir Putin knows I know Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin knows me. And the fact is that this is what is needed on day one, we're in trouble. We're in trouble. This President is shredding our alliances. This President is yielding to Vladimir Putin in ways that are obsequious.

  2. Olga Gorokhoskaya:

    The market was really hungry for rather high-yielding Russian risk, on the back of good credit quality, you can hardly find anything in the double-B rating category that will bring you 6-7( percent) in terms of yields.

  3. John Banzhaf:

    In all too many cases, we have political correctness now becoming political craziness, students are making demands -- faculty, deans, presidents are yielding, resigning [to them]. At the very least, they hold meetings and conferences. We didn't do that. Student groups made more than a dozen literally crazy demands with no rational basis and our university ignored them and nothing has happened.

  4. Georg Marti:

    The IPO makes sense because it could allow Swiss Re to deploy capital to more higher yielding businesses like life and non-life reinsurance.

  5. Amnesty International:

    To the Iraqi protesters, the resignation( of Abdul Mahdi) in some parts is a welcome move in terms of the protests yielding some sort of result, but it's nowhere near enough in terms of the demands that protesters have.

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