Revenue vs. Yield

Revenuenoun

The income returned by an investment.

Yieldverb

(obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

Revenuenoun

The total income received from a given source.

Yieldverb

To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

Revenuenoun

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

Yieldverb

To give way; to allow another to pass first.

‘Yield the right of way to pedestrians.’;

Revenuenoun

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

Yieldverb

To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.

‘They refuse to yield to the enemy.’;

Revenuenoun

(accounting) The net revenue, net sales.

Yieldverb

To give, or give forth, (anything).

Revenueverb

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

Yieldverb

(intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.

Revenueverb

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

Yieldverb

To produce as return, as from an investment.

‘Historically, that security yields a high return.’;

Revenuenoun

That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

‘Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth.’;

Yieldverb

(mathematics) To produce as a result.

‘Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.’;

Revenuenoun

Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

Yieldverb

(linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

‘Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.’;

Revenuenoun

The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

Yieldverb

To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

Revenuenoun

the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Yieldverb

(rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

Revenuenoun

government income due to taxation

Yieldnoun

(obsolete) Payment; tribute.

Revenuenoun

income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature

‘traders have lost £10,000 in revenue since the traffic scheme was implemented’;

Yieldnoun

A product; the quantity of something produced.

‘Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.’;

Revenuenoun

a state's annual income from which public expenses are met

‘the government's tax revenues’; ‘his priority was to raise government revenue and to lower expenditure’;

Yieldnoun

(law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

Revenuenoun

the department of the civil service collecting state revenue

‘when the revenue makes a demand for tax, that demand is implicitly backed by the powers of the state’;

Yieldnoun

(finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

Revenue

In accounting, revenue is the income or increase in net assets that an entity has from its normal activities (in the case of a business, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers). Commercial revenue may also be referred to as sales or as turnover.

Yieldverb

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.

‘To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent.’; ‘When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.’;

Yieldverb

To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

‘[He] makes milch kine yield blood.’; ‘The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.’;

Yieldverb

To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.

‘And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.’; ‘Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.’;

Yieldverb

To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

‘I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.’;

Yieldverb

To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.

Yieldverb

To give a reward to; to bless.

‘Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,And the gods yield you for 't.’; ‘God yield thee, and God thank ye.’; ‘One calmly yields his willing breath.’;

Yieldverb

To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

‘He saw the fainting Grecians yield.’;

Yieldverb

To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.

Yieldverb

To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.

‘Will ye relent,And yield to mercy while 't is offered you?’;

Yieldverb

To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.

‘Nay tell me first, in what more happy fieldsThe thistle springs, to which the lily yields?’;

Yieldnoun

Amount yielded; product; - applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

Yieldnoun

production of a certain amount

Yieldnoun

an amount of a product

Yieldnoun

the income arising from land or other property;

‘the average return was about 5%’;

Yieldnoun

the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time);

‘production was up in the second quarter’;

Yieldverb

be the cause or source of;

‘He gave me a lot of trouble’; ‘Our meeting afforded much interesting information’;

Yieldverb

end resistance, especially under pressure or force;

‘The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram’;

Yieldverb

give or supply;

‘The cow brings in 5 liters of milk’; ‘This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn’; ‘The estate renders some revenue for the family’;

Yieldverb

give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Yieldverb

give in, as to influence or pressure

Yieldverb

move in order to make room for someone for something;

‘The park gave way to a supermarket’; ‘`Move over,' he told the crowd’;

Yieldverb

bring about;

‘His two singles gave the team the victory’;

Yieldverb

be willing to concede;

‘I grant you this much’;

Yieldverb

be fatally overwhelmed

Yieldverb

bring in;

‘interest-bearing accounts’; ‘How much does this savings certificate pay annually?’;

Yieldverb

be flexible under stress of physical force;

‘This material doesn't give’;

Yieldverb

cease opposition; stop fighting

Yieldverb

consent reluctantly

Yieldverb

produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product)

‘the land yields grapes and tobacco’;

Yieldverb

produce or generate (a result, gain, or financial return)

‘this method yields the same results’; ‘such investments yield direct cash returns’;

Yieldverb

give way to arguments, demands, or pressure

‘he yielded to the demands of his partners’; ‘the Western powers now yielded when they should have resisted’;

Yieldverb

relinquish possession of

‘they are forced to yield ground’; ‘they might yield up their secrets’;

Yieldverb

concede (a point of dispute)

‘I yielded the point’;

Yieldverb

give right of way to other traffic.

Yieldverb

(of a mass or structure) give way under force or pressure

‘he reeled into the house as the door yielded’;

Yieldnoun

an amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product

‘the milk yield was poor’;

Yieldnoun

a financial return

‘an annual dividend yield of 20 per cent’;