Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Moving or permitting movement in one direction only.
- adjective Providing for travel in one direction only.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Legally permitting movement or travel in one direction only; -- of paths, especially roads.
- adjective (Transportation) Pertaining to or valid for transportation in one direction between two points. Opposed to
round-trip .
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- adjective
allowing movement in only onedirection - adjective allowing
travel in only one direction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective moving or permitting movement in one direction only
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whereas some two-way links between cap-and-trade systems may thus take more time to establish, in the near-term one-way links between cap-and-trade and credit systems likely will be more attractive and easier to establish.
Robert Stavins: A Wave of the Future: International Linkage of National Climate Change Policies Robert Stavins 2011
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As service-and-information production becomes more industrialized, concentrated, bureaucratized, and automated, more and more service-and-information-producing organizations begin to operate behind what might be called one-way communication mirrors.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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As service-and-information production becomes more industrialized, concentrated, bureaucratized, and automated, more and more service-and-information-producing organizations begin to operate behind what might be called one-way communication mirrors.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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As service-and-information production becomes more industrialized, concentrated, bureaucratized, and automated, more and more service-and-information-producing organizations begin to operate behind what might be called one-way communication mirrors.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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As service-and-information production becomes more industrialized, concentrated, bureaucratized, and automated, more and more service-and-information-producing organizations begin to operate behind what might be called one-way communication mirrors.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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Corporations are what asset-protection gurus call one-way or unidirectional protection devices.
Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006
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Corporations are what asset-protection gurus call one-way or unidirectional protection devices.
Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006
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When O'Keefe asked if any of the RAs would be willing to go on a one-way trip to Mars, my hand shot up, even though I don't particularly like Mars and would much rather take a one-way trip to our Moon.
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The marketing approach to communication – the one-way sales pitch – has not served NASA well.
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Ultimately the Chinese and Indians will beat us to colonization of the moon and Mars because they are willing to think in terms of one-way and high risk missions with inevitable casualties in ways that we are not.
Today's Video: Like None Other - Restored Moon Images to Help Future Moon Missions - NASA Watch 2009
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