What does one-on-one mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. one-on-oneadjective

    directly between two individuals

    "one-on-one instruction"

  2. one-on-one, man-to-manadverb

    being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player

    "one-on-one defense"

  3. one-on-one, person-to-personadverb

    (of two persons) in direct encounter

    "preferred to settle the matter one-on-one"; "interviewed her person-to-person"

Wiktionary

  1. one-on-onenoun

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

  2. one-on-oneadjective

    Involving direct communication between two people.

  3. one-on-oneadjective

    involving one attacker and one defender

ChatGPT

  1. one-on-one

    One-on-one refers to an interaction or encounter between two individuals in which each individual focuses solely on the other. It often indicates a private or intimate conversation or activity, where one person is providing something (like guidance, instruction or consultation) exclusively to the other. It emphasizes direct, personal interaction without the involvement of any additional parties.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of one-on-one in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of one-on-one in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of one-on-one in a Sentence

  1. President Trump:

    Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

  2. John McCain:

    The White House is convinced they can get better results by addressing those issues in private, one-on-one. we have to stand up for what we believe in.

  3. Patrick Register:

    I imagine most candidates wouldn’t want to do it because all of a sudden you’re going to have to explain why you have a Tinder profile. i have this forum that’s letting women of no filter — every age, race background, family, no family — I’m able to have these back and forth, one-on-one conversations and I’m getting amazing things.

  4. Cindy Gamrat:

    I feel the best approach is to get out one-on-one, going to doors and connecting with voters, so that's what I've been doing.

  5. Christopher Ingram:

    That's where a lot of students struggled. We didn't have that one-on-one connection and we missed having them around -- our professors, teachers and leaders.


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