person-to-personadj.adv.

1913 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 6 Dec. 8 (advt.) Depending upon person-to-person gossip for her information as to what is going on in the world.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization i. 30 Some anthropologists have argued that a social structure is the network of all person-to-person relations in a society.

1965 H. Kahn On Escalation xiii. 248 The person-to-person meeting of Khrushchev and Kennedy.

1992 Saudi Med. Jrnl. 13 235/1 Crowding..has been found to facilitate the rapid person-to-person spread of group A streptococci.

1919 N.Y. City Telephone Directory 20/2 A Person-to-Person Toll Call is one made by name for a particular person reached through a telephone which is located outside the local service area and at a point to which there is a person-to-person toll rate.

1933 Sat. Evening Post 11 Feb. 57 There are two classes of Long Distance calls: station-to-station and person-to-person... When the caller asks the operator for a specific individual, the person-to-person rate applies.

1960 C. Fitz Gibbon When Kissing had to Stop viii. 128 I've put through a personal call, what they call a person-to-person call over there.

2002 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 1 June (Money section) 1 Sprint Corp., for example, raised its basic weekend rate this spring and now charges a surcharge of $3.99 for person-to-person calls.

1971 G. Cuttle in B. de Ferranti Living with Computer i. 4 This does not mean that in future all contact will be person-to-person over the telephone and viewing screen.

1988 M. Bishop Unicorn Mountain (1989) i. 19 Very little of what she knew about gayness could be of any use in making contact with him person-to-person.

1997 Internet World Jan. 2 (advt.) Desktop videoconferencing software for the Internet... Talk person-to-person or work with your team or your customers.