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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
head-on
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a head-on crash (=in which the front part of two vehicles hit each other)
▪ He died in a head-on crash with a lorry.
collided head-on (=when they were moving directly towards each other)
▪ Two trains collided head-on.
head-on collision (=between two vehicles that are moving directly towards each other)
▪ Two people were killed in a head-on collision on highway 218.
tackle sth head-on (=in a direct and determined way)
▪ The issue of cost must be tackled head-on.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
collide
▪ The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
▪ Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened, two trains collided head-on killing four people and injuring 22.
tackle
▪ They are being tackled head-on both in the popular press and Communist Party theoretical journals.
▪ The amalgamation has also helped Marsden tackle head-on the problem of cutting internal overheads.
▪ The problem of business managers pursuing their own ends while shareholders foot the bill is tackled head-on.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
meet (sth) head-on
▪ With its new factories, the company intends to meet the competition head-on.
▪ A woman who would tackle the hardest tasks for those she loved, who met life head-on and never cried craven.
▪ Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on.
▪ On a treacherous curve, both vehicles went out of control and met in a head-on collision.
▪ On Christmas Day, he met the opposition head-on.
▪ Rising to his knees, Theseus regained his sword and met the charge head-on.
▪ They flow around events rather than meeting them head-on.
▪ While he hedged on most, he met one inquiry head-on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Even companies that had family policies did not address the ethical issues head-on.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ On Christmas Day, he met the opposition head-on.
▪ The amalgamation has also helped Marsden tackle head-on the problem of cutting internal overheads.
▪ The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
▪ They are being tackled head-on both in the popular press and Communist Party theoretical journals.
▪ They flow around events rather than meeting them head-on.
▪ This was a very different impact, head-on against all but stationary horsemen, solid in their ranks and having seen the approach.
▪ We are conscious of the issue and we have developed policies which address it head-on.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
head-on

head-on \head-on\ adj.

  1. characterized by direct opposition; as, a head-on confrontation.

    Syn: head-to-head.

  2. Without evasion or compromise; as, his usual head-on fashion; to meet a problem head-on.

    Syn: downright, flat-footed, forthright, foursquare, straightforward.

  3. Meeting front to front; used mostly of collisions between vehicles; as, a head-on automobile collision.

    Syn: frontal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
head-on

1840, from head (n.) + on.

Wiktionary
head-on

a. 1 (context idiomatic English) direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating. 2 Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion. alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating. 2 Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion. n. A collision from the front.

WordNet
head-on

  1. adj. characterized by direct opposition; "a head-on confrontation"

  2. meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision" [syn: frontal]

  3. adv. in direct opposition; directly; "we must meet the problem head-on"

  4. with the front foremost; "the cars collided head-on"

Wikipedia
Head-On (film)

Head-On (, literally Against the Wall; ) is a 2004 German-Turkish drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın.

Usage examples of "head-on".

Garm Bel Iblis had turned on the invaders like a cornered wampa, and Fleet Group Two was accelerating through the refugee screen to meet the enemy head-on.

A bright streak of energy shot out of the gloom and struck the blob head-on.

And there was Dunster, enormously concerned about the slave trade and the Race Relations Act and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, thriving on a series of head-on collisions with the masters and the boys which would have left me trembling with nervous exhaustion.

In an argument, the truck would have the better of it far too quickly, simply by turning head-on, making for the body of the old jalopy and turning it upside down.

But she suppressed her neatnik urge and decided the best way to face this little problem was head-on.

She met the mountain head-on, exploding in a fire ball that remapped the landscape with its force.

He continued stubbornly to do his researches into planetary problems in the field, which was why he had come to Skaith and run himself head-on into the Wandsmen.

His great body, arms outflung, came spread-eagling through the air, and, as Snair stepped back, Grogan landed head-on in that broken black lava.

I run head-on into a snag on the path of progress in the shape of Tunk Willoughby.

Mattis pressed toward Baghdad, he was anticipating a head-on collision with the Al Nida Division, deployed south and east of the city.

If I went head-on with Morelli, he could make my life as a bounty hunter difficult to impossible.

Those damn plankers, heading into life sideways, instead of head-on like we cool rollerbladers do, they make me sick.

The moment the Quintan rockets disappeared in it, the probes emerged from the burning cloud in a spiral and, instead of making for the ship, crashed into each other head-on and were thus atomized.

The Reithrese and Haladin reinforcements, moving slowly with their supply trains and siege engines, hit Sture head-on and stopped.

His claws flashing, his body a whirlwind, he met the Venesects head-on.