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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-on-one
adjective
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▪ Kids need one-on-one attention.
Wiktionary
one-on-one

a. 1 (context chiefly North America English) Involving direct communication between two people. 2 (context sports English) involving one attacker and one defender n. A contest involving only one player on each side, especially of an activity often involving teams.

WordNet
one-on-one
  1. adj. directly between two individuals; "one-on-one instruction"

  2. being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player; "one-on-one defense" [syn: man-to-man]

  3. adv. (of two persons) in direct encounter; "preferred to settle the matter one-on-one"; "interviewed her person-to-person" [syn: person-to-person]

Usage examples of "one-on-one".

It was decided by the Interplanetary Council, at the urging of Mother Aglee, to allow iffling reserves to fall to a working one-on-one level some seven years past.

Although Mouw was unaware of it at the time, Castellano preferred to hash over the construction projects so dear to his heart during one-on-one meetings that did not take place at the kitchen table.

Silver-tongued Saul Steinmetz, who could make any human being understand him and what he was doing, if only he had a chance to sit down and talk to the person one-on-one, had explained.

I knew that I had no desire to fight with Bat in a one-on-one match.

A one-on-one, an in-depth interview with the woman behind the badge.

There, Lang reviewed what had been said during the so-called truce talks, and what reported statements had been exchanged between Edwards and the Regent during the subsequent one-on-one sessions.

That honor had to go to Natalie French when she answered the door the night of his one-on-one egg sac-making session.

This is where you would use the power of Habits 4, 5, and 6 at the mentoring level to create your family mission statement and set up two new structures that most families don’t have: dedicated weekly family times and calendared one-on-one dates.

The combinations would change from day to day: three third-years against two fourth-years, four fourth-years against five third-years, or simple battle, one-on-one.

This ain't no one-on-one goomba war like they've been used to fighting.

With the Hutt's trade strangehold now broken, and the Alliance dealing with the Jokhalli, it seems Quaffug's goose is cooked -- until Lando gets an idea and bets his life and ship in a one-on-one battle with a Jokhalli named Utrop to save Quaffug's life.

The idea of a family mission statement and of having a weekly family time and regular one-on-one bonding experiences may be so far out of your comfort zone that you just can’.

His physical therapist, Moshe Bloom, was in his late twenties, six feet four, with a body so pumped and well carved that he looked as if he was in training to go one-on-one with an army tank.

Part of her even relished this little showdown, getting their animosity out into the open and going one-on-one with Tucker.

By the end I was learning one-on-one from the best senseis I could find, in whatever school—and none of them are people you’ll ever see mentioned in the martial arts magazines.