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yieldless

yieldless adjective: not providing any yield or return.

Adjective

yieldless (not comparable)

  1. Not providing any yield or return.
    • In the sample case of riskless and yieldless money, and a multivariate normal distribution for the yields of all other assets, Tobin's famous separation theorem implies that a proportional tax decreases the demand for money and increases the demand for all risky assets.1983, Martin S. Feldstein, Capital taxation, page 197
  2. (archaic) unyielding
    • And Death's grim hands grip hard below / At mortared seams of the yieldless stone

Origin of yieldless

From yield + -less.

Questions about yieldless

What does yieldless mean?
Yieldless means not providing any yield or return.
What part of speech is yieldless?
Yieldless is an adjective.

Words near yieldless in the dictionary

  1. yielding up
  2. yielding up the ghost
  3. yieldingly
  4. yieldingness
  5. yieldings
  6. yieldless
  7. yieldly
  8. yields
  9. yields the field
  10. yields the ghost
  11. yields to maturity

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