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One-on-one

Definitions: One-on-one

One-on-one

Adjective

1. Directly between two individuals; "one-on-one instruction".

2. (sports) being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player; "one-on-one defense".

Adverb

1. (of two persons) in direct encounter; "preferred to settle the matter one-on-one"; "interviewed her person-to-person".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: One-on-one

Synonyms: man-to-man (adj), person-to-person (adv). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: bijective (mathematics), injective, one to one (industry, meteorology & standards), one-one (mathematics), one-to-one.

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Crosswords: One-on-one

Specialty definitions using "one-on-one": hot chatPublic availability session. (references)

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Commercial Usage: One-on-one

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Complete Video Hook-Up & Help Guide: A One-On-One, Very Easy to Understand Guide on Vcr'S, Camcorder'S, Monitor/Receivers, Dss, and Video Editin (reference)

  • Cleric's Challenge II (Ad&d One-On-One Adventure) (reference)

  • Vacation Ownership Sales Training: The One-On-One Successful Training Guide for the First Year of Timeshare Sales (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: One-on-one

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: One-on-one

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For the athletically inclined, a basketball court for a little one-on-one. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

NRCS offers one-on-one help to landowners on their farms to plan for conserving their soils. Conservation plans are the basis for complete natural resource protection of a farm. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: One-on-one

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Others, such as FM systems and personal amplifiers, are better for one-on-one conversations. (references)

Participants receive one-on-one orientation from FDA scientists and attend division drug review meetings. (references)

Business

A professional sales force, promoting and selling directly, or one-on-one to end-users is the norm. The building of relationships with these clients is important, such as through invitations to sports events. (references)

The services include a full schedule of one-on-one appointments with key contacts in the market for all U.S. participants; a U.S. pavilion promotional brochure; interpreters and related support services; contacts with the tourism press; a specialized publicity campaign to attract attention to the Pavilion; and a lounge to receive guests. (references)

Economic History

New Zealand

One-on-one discussions with potential buyers are the predominant method of selling capital intensive or service products to other businesses. (references)

Morocco

FCS in Morocco operates a Gold Key Service providing a U.S. businessperson one-on-one meetings with a series of potential partners, agents or distributors. (references)

Honduras

The U.S. Commercial Service (USCS) offers free and intensive one-on-one counseling plus low-cost, highly effective programs to help U.S. businesses establish or expand their foreign markets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: One-on-one

"One-on-one" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "One-on-one" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Cardinal Number100%2078,262

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: One-on-one

Language Translations for "one-on-one"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

一对一. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

하나 에 하나. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

one-on-oneay

   

Thai

  

ระหว่างสองคนเท่านั้น. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: One-on-one

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-n-n-o-o-o"

-4 letters: nene, neon, none, noon.

-5 letters: eon, nee, noo, one.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: One-on-one


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 6E 65 2D 6F 6E 2D 6F 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01101110 01100101 00101101 01101111 01101110 00101101 01101111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#110 &#101 &#45 &#111 &#110 &#45 &#111 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006E 0065 002D 006F 006E 002D 006F 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49807115818015818071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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