Definition of Person-to-person

1. Adjective. Involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties. "Person-to-person telephone calls"

Similar to: Personal

2. Adverb. (of two persons) in direct encounter. "Interviewed her person-to-person"
Exact synonyms: One-on-one

Definition of Person-to-person

1. Adjective. (context: of a telephone call) Such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a loan) Such that the lender and borrower are individuals rather than companies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Person-to-person

persistent tremor
persistent vegetative state
persistently
persistently growing tooth
persister
persisters
persisting
persistingly
persistive
persists
persnicketiness
persnickety
person
person-to-person (current term)
person-years
person agreement
person hour
person of color
person of colour
person of ordinary skill in the art
person of size
person to person epidemic
persona
persona grata
persona non grata
personability
personable
personableness

Literary usage of Person-to-person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Smoking Cessation: Clinical Practice Guideline by Michael C. Fiore (1996)
"Efficacy of and cessation rates for various durations of person-to-person treatment (n = 55 studies) was categorized as one or fewer sessions, ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The term contagion is also in common use to denote the actual propagation of diseases of a specific nature from person to person. ..."

3. Vital Statistics: A Memorial Volume of Selections from the Reports and by William Farr (1885)
"This bas an important bearing on every kind of intercommunication. The distance to be travelled in going from person to person in England and Wales, ..."

4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Communication, as we have secn, may he from person to person, or to things, or to persons and things, at the same time. When it is from person to person, ..."

5. Remarks and Criticisms on the Hon. John Quincy Adams's Letter to the Hon by William Coleman (1808)
"The changing from person to person, from subject to person, or from person to subject, within the same period, is not allowable. ..."

6. The ABCs of Safe & Healthy Child Care: A Handbook for Child Care Providers by Cynthia M. Hale, Jacqueline A. Polder (2000)
"However, this pattern can vary from person to person. It is believed to be spread person-to-person when a susceptible person is exposed to respiratory tract ..."

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