"one-on-one" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-us-one-on-one.oga
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} one-on-one (not comparable)
  1. (chiefly Canada, US) Involving direct communication or competition between two people. Tags: Canada, US, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-one-on-one-en-adj-xdq~-JGa Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 30 14 1 25 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 32 20 20 1 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 28 21 2 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 26 29 18 1 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 29 18 1 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 33 23 22 1 21
  2. (sports) Involving one attacker and one defender. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Sports Translations (involving one attacker and one defender): jeden na jednoho (Czech)
    Sense id: en-one-on-one-en-adj-EHoNGDNd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 30 14 1 25 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 32 20 20 1 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 28 21 2 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 26 29 18 1 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 29 18 1 25 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'involving one attacker and one defender': 6 93 1
  3. (mathematics) bijective or injective Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-one-on-one-en-adj-LJRFu1qc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 30 14 1 25 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 32 20 20 1 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 28 21 2 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 26 29 18 1 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 29 18 1 25 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: one-to-one [British]

Adverb

Audio: En-us-one-on-one.oga
Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} one-on-one (not comparable)
  1. In a one-on-one manner. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-one-on-one-en-adv-20u~5Vkn

Noun

Audio: En-us-one-on-one.oga Forms: one-on-ones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} one-on-one (countable and uncountable, plural one-on-ones)
  1. A contest involving only one player on each side, especially of an activity often involving teams. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (contest between two people): triple O Related terms: face-to-face, man-to-man
    Sense id: en-one-on-one-en-noun-pKTtXAwA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 30 14 1 25 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 32 20 20 1 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 28 21 2 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 26 29 18 1 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 29 18 1 25

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.