[每日] yielding (a) 生產的
Word of the Day (Wednesday January 28, 2009)
yielding \YEEL-ding\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://ppt.cc/HyyV
1. not resisting; compliant
2. not stiff or rigid; easily bent or shaped
3. giving the amount of crops, profits, etc.
While he forecasts that lower yielding stocks are likely to bounce
more when the markets recover, he says the emphasis on dividends
is part of a longer-term trend driven by four key factors.
-- Annette Sampson, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2002-10-26
In fact, on June 29, 2006 - the day the Federal Reserve Board last
voted to raise short-term interest rates - the yield on 10-year
Treasury notes stood at 5.20 percent. Today, new 10-year notes are
yielding less, at 5.02 percent.
-- Paul J. Lim, New York Times, 2007-07-01
by 1340 from yield, Old English geldan/gieldan "to pay," from
Proto Germanic *geldanan "pay," perhaps from Proto Indo-European
*ghel-to- "I pay," found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic.
Yielding in sense of "giving up" is c 1425 and "giving way" is by
1588.
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