Is Maria a friend of yours?yoursyours /jɔːz $ jɔːrz/ ●●● S1 W3 pronoun [possessive form of ‘you’] 
This is our room, and yours is just across the hall. A lot of people have money problems, but yours are more serious than most people’s. A cash prize of £10,000 or a new car – the choice is yours.something of yours Is Maria a friend of yours? That bag of yours weighs a ton. I’ve read that book of yours.2be yours for the taking/asking if something desirable is yours for the taking or asking, you can easily obtain it: If you want the job, it’s yours for the asking.3Yours faithfully British English used to end a formal letter that begins ‘Dear Sir’ or ‘Dear Madam’4Yours truly/Yours (also Yours sincerely British English, Sincerely yours American English) used to end a letter that begins with the title and name of the person you are writing to, for example ‘Dear Mr. Graves’5yours truly informal used humorously to mean ‘I’ or ‘me’: They all went out, leaving yours truly to clear up the mess. → up yours at up1(30)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Is Maria a friend of yours?COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Is Maria a friend of yours?· A friend of mine is going to Tokyo next week.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be yours for the taking/askingPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► Yours ever/Ever yours► you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours► (yours) sincerely► up yours!
1used when speaking or writing to one or more people to refer to something that belongs to them or is connected with them: - So what is new? Yours faithfully, Heinz Vuillermoz.
- Such letters will close with Yours faithfully.
- Thanks also to anyone else involved who may read this letter. Yours faithfully.
- A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks.
- All high tech and computers and whatnot. Yours truly won't be moving to the new premises.
- It is very important so I hope you will come. Yours truly, Hilda Passmore.
- Of course it's Yours Truly that's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle!
- The man of your dreams has come. Yours truly is handsome, ear-nose-throat specialist, well settled in Connecticut.
- There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.
- A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks.
- All high tech and computers and whatnot. Yours truly won't be moving to the new premises.
- It is very important so I hope you will come. Yours truly, Hilda Passmore.
- Of course it's Yours Truly that's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle!
- The man of your dreams has come. Yours truly is handsome, ear-nose-throat specialist, well settled in Connecticut.
- There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.
- Even when your growing brain shared my blood, your dreams were yours alone.
- She had never helped with any of the bills, so he felt that the house was his alone.
- The next job was his alone.
- Members of the judging panel included yours truly.
- And that puts everyone at risk - not just yours truly.
- And yours truly is in the drivin' seat.
- Either way the consequences were terminal for yours truly.
- Everyone knew something yours truly didn't.
- Group comportment had deteriorated by the day, with yours truly bearing the brunt of the collective delinquency.
- Imagine that - passing up the opportunity for a little hanky-panky with yours truly.
- In we filed, yours truly with some hesitation.
- The irony of the scenario was well appreciated by yours truly.
This is our room, and yours is just across the hall. A lot of people have money problems, but yours are more serious than most people’s. A cash prize of £10,000 or a new car – the choice is yours.something of yours Is Maria a friend of yours? That bag of yours weighs a ton. I’ve read that book of yours.2be yours for the taking/asking if something desirable is yours for the taking or asking, you can easily obtain it: If you want the job, it’s yours for the asking.3Yours faithfully British English used to end a formal letter that begins ‘Dear Sir’ or ‘Dear Madam’4Yours truly/Yours (also Yours sincerely British English, Sincerely yours American English) used to end a letter that begins with the title and name of the person you are writing to, for example ‘Dear Mr. Graves’5yours truly informal used humorously to mean ‘I’ or ‘me’: They all went out, leaving yours truly to clear up the mess. → up yours at up1(30)