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Phrase(s): yield to someone
1. to let someone go ahead; to give someone the right-of-way. • Please yield to the next speaker. • She yielded to the next speaker. 2. to give in to someone. • She found it hard to yield to her husband in an argument. • I will yield to no one., Phrase(s): yield something to someone
1. to give the right-of-way to someone. • You must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians. • You failed to yield the right-of-way to the oncoming car. 2. to give up something to someone. • The army yielded the territory to the invading army. • We yielded the territory to the government.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs