yield a return

Meaning

To 'yield a return' means to produce a profit, financial gain, or positive result from an investment, project, or effort. It is widely used in finance, investment banking, and general corporate strategy to discuss the outcome of resource allocation.

Examples

• This high-risk mutual fund is expected to yield a return of over ten percent.

  This high-risk mutual fund is expected to yield a return of over ten percent.

• Our marketing campaign has yet to yield a return on our initial investment.

  Our marketing campaign has yet to yield a return on our initial investment.

• Investing in employee training programs usually yields a long-term return.

  Investing in employee training programs usually yields a long-term return.

• The government bonds yield a small but guaranteed return every year.

  The government bonds yield a small but guaranteed return every year.

• We need to analyze which R&D projects are most likely to yield a return.

  We need to analyze which R&D projects are most likely to yield a return.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ The investment made a high yield return.

  ✓ The investment yielded a high return.

  In this context, 'yield' is used as a verb (to yield a return). Combining them as 'made a yield return' is grammatically incorrect.

• ✗ Our efforts didn't yield to any return.

  ✓ Our efforts didn't yield any return.

  The verb 'yield' does not require the preposition 'to' when it means to produce or generate something.

Related Expressions

Practice

• Real estate properties in this area consistently ___ of eight percent annually.

  💡 Produce a profit.

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  yield a return

• It took three years for our research department's work to ___.

  💡 Generate a positive financial result.

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  yield a return