Difference between Pay and Yield

What is the difference between Pay and Yield?

Pay as a verb is to give money in exchange for goods or services. while Yield as a verb is to give way; to allow another to pass first.

Pay

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give money in exchange for goods or services. To be profitable. To be profitable for. To give (something else than money). To discharge an obligation or debt. To suffer consequences.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

Example sentence: The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Yield

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A product; the quantity of something produced

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give way; to allow another to pass first.To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.To produce as return, as from an investment.The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.To produce as a result.

Example sentence: The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

We hope you now know whether to use Pay or Yield in your sentence.

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