Meaning & use
One-way
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Allowing or involving movement or communication in only one direction, or valid for travel to a destination but not back again.
See it in a sentence
The city converted the busy avenue into a one-way street to ease congestion.
She bought a one-way ticket, unsure of when she'd return.
A note on using this word
"One-way" is standardly written with a hyphen; the unhyphenated form appears mainly in informal or web-based writing.
Words with a similar meaning
single-direction
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
two-wayround-trip
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