From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishone-wayˌone-ˈway adjective [usually before noun] 1 TTRa one-way street is one in which vehicles are only allowed to travel in one direction the town’s one-way system2 TT especially American English a one-way ticket is for travelling from one place to another but not back again OPP round-trip SYN single British English3 ONLYa one-way process, relationship etc is one in which only one person makes any effort or provides anything
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one-way• The electronic one-way communication system is more than just a lock system.• This will not be a matter of one-way giving, even though the suburban church has most of the material resources.• This book is unlikely to go the one-way journey of most borrowed books.• And whatever happens, after May 3 they're predicting a mad scramble for one-way only tickets.• Too many managers act as though language were more of a one-way phenomenon.• But it is, in a sense, a one-way process.• a one-way street• Ballymena Division Warden Street, Ballymena - single lane traffic on existing one-way street.• Xeurons are normally one-way streets, but occasionally they can be forced into working backward.• one-way trafficone-way system• I weighed in on Monday, got blood pressured, then drove through blinding rain into the Guildford one-way system.• The first option involved simply eliminating through traffic, principally through the use of one-way systems.• Unfortunately to get there I had to negotiate an amazingly convoluted one-way system.• The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island, surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.• Enter the one-way system and take the third right into Catherine Street, Percy Street being your second left turning.• Moreover, if one-way systems are introduced, cycle use is discouraged and safety is decreased by the increased vehicle speeds.• The one-way systems round here can be pretty confusing. 