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person-to-person
[ pur-suhn-tuh-pur-suhn ]
adjective
- involving direct contact or exchange between individuals: Diplomacy requires person-to-person encounters at the highest levels of government.
The disease is spread through person-to-person contact.
Diplomacy requires person-to-person encounters at the highest levels of government.
- (of a long-distance telephone call) chargeable only upon speaking with a specified person at the number called: Compare station-to-station.
She made a person-to-person call to her brother in California.
adverb
- face-to-face; in person:
They interviewed her person-to-person.
- (in making a long-distance telephone call) to a specified person: Compare station-to-station.
I telephoned him person-to-person.
Word History and Origins
Origin of person-to-person1
Example Sentences
I'm not talking about a letter from a lawyer or a post on Instagram, I mean a real, person-to-person gesture.
Health officials say the current risk to the public from bird flu remains low, as no person-to-person spread has been detected.
Because person-to-person spread of bird flu has not yet been detected, things are not at a point where mask-wearing has been recommended.
Ordinarily, person-to-person transmission of a flu virus “is mainly through the air from droplets from a sneeze or cough, which contains very little virus,” Paulson said.
This highly contagious virus, which can cause severe liver inflammation, has evolved to spread through close person-to-person contact or through contaminated food and water.
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