yes

Definition

Examples

Yes, the meeting has been moved to three o'clock this afternoon.

Collocations

• Easy say yes to the proposal
  to say yes to the proposal, meaning to express in words
• Medium a definitive yes from the executive committee
  referring to a definitive yes from the executive committee
• Hard conditional yes subject to parliamentary ratification
  describing conditional yes subject to parliamentary ratification (qualified by reservations)
• Very Hard surrounded by obsequious yes men who flatter the tyrant
  to surrounded by obsequious yes men who flatter the tyrant, meaning to extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle