one-to-one
/wʌntəˈwʌn
/(also chiefly North American one-on-one)
adjective & adverb
1Denoting or referring to a situation in which two parties come into direct contact, opposition, or correspondence: [as adjective]: you can be treated by a therapist on a one-to-one basis...
- In one-on-one situations, go for the man in black every time.
- People just don't seem to have the capability of beating their opponents in a one-on-one situation.
- On three occasions York created one-on-one opportunities but each time the Oxton goalkeeper kept them out.
1.1 Mathematics In which each member of one set is associated with one member of another.What makes the system exemplify the natural number structure is that it has a one-to-one successor function with an initial object and the system satisfies the induction principle....
- And yet, ciphers based on one-to-one substitutions, also known as monoalphabetic ciphers, can be easily broken by frequency analysis.
- For example; the generally held view that dimension was invariant under one-to-one continuous mappings…
noun informal
A face-to-face encounter: you have a fight with someone because they’ve picked on you and you beat him in a one-to-one...
- You have to feel for them: a couple of beers, then suddenly they're facing down a series of exuberantly delivered one-to-ones with some of the most sinister and surreal comic creations this side of The League Of Gentlemen.
- Good grief, there are Scottish sportsmen and women who don't do one-to-ones.
- Most of my day is then spent in meetings - board, audit or one-to-ones with senior executives.
