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Definition of One-on-one

1. Adverb. (of two persons) in direct encounter. "Interviewed her person-to-person"

2. Adjective. Directly between two individuals. "One-on-one instruction"

3. Adjective. Being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player. "One-on-one defense"

Definition of One-on-one

1. Adjective. (chiefly North America) Involving direct communication between two people. ¹

2. Adjective. (sports) involving one attacker and one defender ¹

3. Adjective. (mathematics) bijective or injective ¹

4. Noun. A contest involving only one player on each side, especially of an activity often involving teams. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of One-on-one

one-man band one-man rule one-member one-millionth one-minute warning one-night stands one-nighter one-nighters one-ninth one-note

one-of-a-kind one-of-a-kinds one-off one-offs one-on-one (current term) one-party one-percent milk one-percenter one-percenters one-person(a)

one-piece one-quadrillionth one-quintillionth one-seventh one-shot one-shots one-sided one-sidedly one-sidedness

Literary usage of One-on-one

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

1. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"When red and yellow are superposed on one retina we obtain a compound sensation of orange; if they are thrown one on one retina, one on the other, ..."

2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"If you have two e indies, one on one side and one on the other, instead of one image you get two images, and if one candle gives more light than another, ..."

3. Change Is the Rule: Practical Actions for Change: On Target, on Time, on Budget by Winford E. Holland (2000)
"We have already had an important one-on-one conversation with each affected ... We recommend that managers use one-on-one meetings with each employee ..."

4. Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshop by Jeff Anderson (2005)
"I would hope that if I sit next to them, working one- on-one, they would learn ... They tell us to conference for one-on-one instruction, but I had thirty ..."

5. The life and ... adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe by Daniel Defoe (1847)
"one on one side the table, and one on the other, expecting now and then a bit from my hand, as a mark of special favour. I was rather impatient, ..."

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