One-way meaning

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Moving or permitting movement in one direction only.

A one-way street.

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Providing for travel in one direction only.

A one-way ticket.

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Moving, or providing for movement, in one direction only.

A one-way street, a one-way ticket.

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Without any reciprocal action or obligation.

A one-way contract.

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The town centre is now a system of one-way streets.

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Allowing travel in only one direction.

I bought a one-way ticket to Leeds.

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Origin of one-way

  • See separate entries for one and way.First attested in 1906 in reference to one-way tickets; 1914 in reference to one-way streets; 1940 in reference to one-way mirrors

    From Wiktionary

One-way Sentence Examples

  • It doesn't matter to me one way or another, but I wish you would at least make an effort at seeing his side of it.

  • That was one way Alex had followed her lead.

  • Her chest was tight and her breath short, but she knew there was one way to find out what happened to Damian.

  • It was an interesting conversation, albeit one-way.

  • I knew one way or another the bones would be made public.

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