yield
/jild/ v [I/T] (GIVE UP)Definition
› to give up the control of or responsibility for something, often because you have been forced to: [T] to yield power › If you yield to something, you accept that you have been defeated by it: [I] It’s easy to yield to the temptation to borrow a lot of money. › To yield to traffic coming from another direction is to wait and allow it to go first.
(Definition of yield v (GIVE UP) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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