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Yes, yield is playable

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"Yield" Definition

noun

A profit obtained from an investment; a return.
An amount yielded or produced; a product.
The energy released by an explosion, especially by a nuclear explosion, expressed in units of weight of TNT required to produce an equivalent release: The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 20 kilotons.
Something.
The amount or quantity produced or returned.

verb

To give or render as fitting, rightfully owed, or required.
to give up possession of on claim or demand as.
To give up (as one's breath) and so die.
To surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another hand over possession of.
To surrender or submit (oneself) to another.

verb-transitive

To furnish as return for effort or investment; be productive of: an investment that yields high percentages.
To give forth by or as if by a natural process, especially by cultivation: a field that yields many bushels of corn.
To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender.
To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede.

verb-intransitive

To give forth a natural product; be productive.
To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.
To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty.
To give way to pressure or force: The door yielded to a gentle push.
To produce a return for effort or investment: bonds that yield well.

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