Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

fellow 'Pages™noun [pi U] a book with yellow pages that gives a list of companies and organizations and their telephone numbers, arranged according to the type of services they offer: Look in the Yellow Pages to find your nearest car hire firm. -» White Pages

Yellow Sheets™ (also spelled yellow sheets)

noun [pi., U]

(Finance) in the US, a list of the latest prices of bonds and other information about them, that is published every day -> Pink Sheets

yen /jen/ noun [C] (plural yen)

the unit of money in Japan: a net loss of 110 million yen

the yen the value of the yen compared with the value of the money of other countries: The yen has fallen/risen against the dollar.

See note at increase

yield ;ji:ld/ noun, verb

noun [c.u]

see also: current yield, dividend earnings high- initial net nominal running ~

1 (Finance) the total amount of profits or income that you get from an investment or from a business: This will give a yield of 10% on your investment, о

The dividend yield on the stock is too attractive to miss. See note at profit

2 the total amount of sth that is produced: a high crop yield • verb [+ obj]

to produce or provide a profit, an income, a result, a crop or a product: Higher-rate bank deposit accounts yield good returns, о The oilfield has yielded over 3 million barrels, о The research should yield useful information.

.yield to ma'turity noun [c] (plural yields to maturity) (abbr YTM)

(Finance) the amount of money that an investor will get from a bond if it is not paid back until the end of its life (maturity), usually expressed as a percentage Isyni redemption yield

yours /jo:z; AmE jarz; jo:rz; jurz/ pronoun (usually Yours) used, usually in phrases, at the end of a letter before signing your name: (BrE) Yours sincerely/faithfully о (AmE) Sincerely yours о (AmE) Yours truly

yr (AmE spelling usually yr.) abbr (only used in written English)

year

your

yrs (AmE spelling usually yrs.) abbr (only used in written English)

years

Yrs a short way of writing Yours at the end of letters

YTD /.wai ti: 'di:/ = year-to-date YTM /,wai ti: 'em/ = yield to maturity

Zz

ZBB /.zed bi: 'bi:; AmE ,zi:/ = zero-based budgeting

zero /'ziarau; AmE 'zirou; 'zi:-/ number, verb

number (plural zeros or zeroes)

(especially AmE) the number 0 [syn] nought (BrE)

the lowest possible amount or level; nothing at all: I rated my chances of promotion as zero, о The economy recorded zero growth in November.

verb (zeroes, zeroing, zeroed, zeroed)

ШВД .zero 'in on sb/sth to fix all your attention on the person or thing mentioned: They zeroed in on the key issues.

.zero-based 'budgeting noun [u] (abbrzbb)(Accounting) a system of planning a company's budget where each department is not automatically given all the money it spent the previous year, but instead must give reasons why it needs all the money it is asking for: We use zero- based budgeting to control spending.

.zero defects noun [pi.] (Production) used to describe a system of quality management which aims to make products that contain almost no faults: a strategy for achieving zero defects in construction о Our products are manufactured to our zero-defects standard. -» right first time