adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a one-way street (= in which you can only drive in one direction )
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He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
a one-way ticket ( also a single ticket British English ) (= a ticket to a place but not back again )
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I bought a one-way ticket to London.
one-way mirror
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mirror
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Video and one-way mirrors allow designers to see how their systems stand up in practice.
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No, he thought, like an investigator in the dark, surveying his subject through a one-way mirror .
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During his 10-minute absence, the pair were videotaped through a one-way mirror .
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At the bottom a one-way mirror gave him a view of the corridor outside.
street
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Within each quarter there are selected road closures and some one-way streets , making journeys even more circuitous for non-residents.
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This is not a one-way street .
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Ballymena Division Warden Street , Ballymena - single lane traffic on existing one-way street.
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And so, with a sigh, he pulled out of the driveway, then stared down the narrow one-way street .
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He crossed the one-way street and entered the front door by the side of the kiosk.
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Xeurons are normally one-way streets , but occasionally they can be forced into working backward.
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Eliminating one-way streets negates their effect of increasing speeds and necessary distances travelled.
system
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The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island, surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.
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I weighed in on Monday, got blood pressured, then drove through blinding rain into the Guildford one-way system .
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The first option involved simply eliminating through traffic, principally through the use of one-way systems .
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Unfortunately to get there I had to negotiate an amazingly convoluted one-way system .
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Moreover, if one-way systems are introduced, cycle use is discouraged and safety is decreased by the increased vehicle speeds.
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The one-way systems round here can be pretty confusing.
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Enter the one-way system and take the third right into Catherine Street, Percy Street being your second left turning.
ticket
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The one-way ticket thus cost me £29.50.
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A dry, uninteresting opening point will surely be a one-way ticket to the wastebasket for your document.
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And without more ado he booked his one-way ticket .
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It is a one-way ticket to riches for the individual and a one-way ticket to poverty for the village.
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I enclose the one-way ticket counterfoil as proof of purchase, and look forward to hearing from you.
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It is a one-way ticket to riches for the individual and a one-way ticket to poverty for the village.
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And desire and dedication are easier to come by when the alternative is a one-way ticket back to the ghetto.
traffic
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The idea of one-way traffic is as foreign to Grandma as outer space.
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This is not quite so true of historic, international centres of knowledge with one-way traffic systems.
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Additionally, there are occasional examples of cycle lanes being carried in streets against the flow of one-way traffic systems.
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Certain kinds of one-way traffic , certain kinds of one-way street, are in the end not hard to negotiate.
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They are really one-way traffic systems in which several streams of vehicles can mix and circulate in a clockwise direction only.
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It wasn't all one-way traffic across the border.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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one-way traffic
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a one-way street
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And whatever happens, after May 3 they're predicting a mad scramble for one-way only tickets.
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Ballymena Division Warden Street, Ballymena - single lane traffic on existing one-way street.
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But it is, in a sense, a one-way process.
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The electronic one-way communication system is more than just a lock system.
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This book is unlikely to go the one-way journey of most borrowed books.
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This will not be a matter of one-way giving, even though the suburban church has most of the material resources.
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Too many managers act as though language were more of a one-way phenomenon.
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Xeurons are normally one-way streets, but occasionally they can be forced into working backward.