Yours (ürz), pron. See the Note under Your.

Yours (ürz), pron. See the Note under Your.

• That which belongs to you; the possessive case of you, used without a following noun.
       If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.
       Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.
       It's all yours.
  
• (Written at the end of a letter, before the signature) Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours. NB: In British English the adverb almost invariably follows the word yours; in American English it usually precedes it. As a general rule, sincerely is only employed if the name of the recipient is already known to the writer; a letter begun with Dear Sir or Dear Madam finishes with faithfully. Yours on its own and yours ever are less formal than the other forms.