The difference between Earn and Yield
When used as verbs, earn means to gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work, whereas yield means to pay, give in payment.
Yield is also noun with the meaning: payment.
check bellow for the other definitions of Earn and Yield
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Earn as a verb (transitive):
To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
Examples:
"You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well."
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Earn as a verb (transitive):
To receive payment for work.
Examples:
"He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO.  My bank account is only earning one percent interest."
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Earn as a verb (intransitive):
To receive payment for work.
Examples:
"Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent."
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Earn as a verb (transitive):
To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
Examples:
"My CD earns me six percent!"
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Earn as a verb (transitive):
To achieve by being worthy of.
Examples:
"to earn a spot in the top 20"
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Earn as a verb (UK, dialect, dated):
To curdle, as milk.
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Earn as a verb (obsolete):
To long; to yearn.
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Earn as a verb (obsolete):
To grieve.
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Earn as a noun:
Examples:
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Yield as a verb (obsolete):
To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
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Yield as a verb:
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
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Yield as a verb:
To give way; to allow another to pass first.
Examples:
"Yield the right of way to pedestrians."
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Yield as a verb:
To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
Examples:
"They refuse to yield to the enemy."
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Yield as a verb:
To give, or give forth, (anything).
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Yield as a verb (intransitive):
To give way; to succumb to a force.
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Yield as a verb:
To produce as return, as from an investment.
Examples:
"Historically, that security yields a high return."
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Yield as a verb (mathematics):
To produce as a result.
Examples:
"Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."
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Yield as a verb (linguistics):
To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
Examples:
"Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."
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Yield as a verb (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen):
To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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Yield as a verb (rare):
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
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Yield as a noun (obsolete):
Payment; tribute.
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Yield as a noun:
A product; the quantity of something produced.
Examples:
"Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit."
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Yield as a noun (law):
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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Yield as a noun (finance):
Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.