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Revenue vs. Yield — What's the Difference?

Revenue vs. Yield — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Revenue and Yield

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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.

Yield

Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product)
The land yields grapes and tobacco

Revenue

Income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature
Traders have lost £10,000 in revenue since the traffic scheme was implemented

Yield

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

Revenue

The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses.
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Yield

(of a mass or structure) give way under force or pressure
He reeled into the house as the door yielded

Revenue

Yield from property or investment; income.

Yield

An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product
The milk yield was poor

Revenue

All the income produced by a particular source.

Yield

To give forth by a natural process, especially by cultivation
A field that yields many bushels of corn.

Revenue

A governmental department set up to collect public funds.

Yield

To furnish as return for effort or investment; be productive of
An investment that yields a high return.

Revenue

The income returned by an investment.

Yield

To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender
Yielded my seat to the speaker.
Yielded his sword.

Revenue

The total income received from a given source.

Yield

To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede
Yielded the right of way to the oncoming traffic.

Revenue

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

Yield

To give forth a natural product; be productive.

Revenue

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

Yield

To produce a return for effort or investment
Bonds that yield well.

Revenue

(accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.

Yield

To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.

Revenue

(figurative) A return; something paid back.

Yield

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

Revenue

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

Yield

To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty.

Revenue

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

Yield

To give up one's place, as to one that is superior
Yielded to the chairperson.

Revenue

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.

Yield

An amount yielded or produced; a product.

Revenue

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

Yield

A profit obtained from an investment; a return.

Revenue

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.

Yield

The energy released by an explosion, especially by a nuclear explosion, expressed in units of weight (usually kilotons) of TNT required to produce an equivalent release.

Revenue

The entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Yield

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

Revenue

Government income due to taxation

Yield

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

Yield

To give way; to allow another to pass first.
Yield the right of way to pedestrians.

Yield

To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
They refuse to yield to the enemy.

Yield

To give, or give forth, (anything).

Yield

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

Yield

To produce as return, as from an investment.
Historically, that security yields a high return.

Yield

(mathematics) To produce as a result.
Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

Yield

(linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

Yield

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

Yield

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

Yield

(obsolete) Payment; tribute.

Yield

A product; the quantity of something produced.
Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.

Yield

The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.

Yield

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

Yield

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

Yield

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.

Yield

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.

Yield

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.

Yield

To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.

Yield

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

Yield

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.

Yield

To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
He saw the fainting Grecians yield.

Yield

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

Yield

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?

Yield

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?

Yield

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

Yield

Production of a certain amount

Yield

An amount of a product

Yield

The income arising from land or other property;
The average return was about 5%

Yield

The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time);
Production was up in the second quarter

Yield

Be the cause or source of;
He gave me a lot of trouble
Our meeting afforded much interesting information

Yield

End resistance, especially under pressure or force;
The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram

Yield

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

Yield

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

Yield

Give in, as to influence or pressure

Yield

Move in order to make room for someone for something;
The park gave way to a supermarket
`Move over,' he told the crowd

Yield

Bring about;
His two singles gave the team the victory

Yield

Be willing to concede;
I grant you this much

Yield

Be fatally overwhelmed

Yield

Bring in;
Interest-bearing accounts
How much does this savings certificate pay annually?

Yield

Be flexible under stress of physical force;
This material doesn't give

Yield

Cease opposition; stop fighting

Yield

Consent reluctantly

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