Difference between Yield and Pay

What is the difference between Yield and Pay?

Yield as a noun is a product; the quantity of something produced while Pay as a noun is money given in return for work; salary or wages.

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: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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.

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

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