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one-way street

nounB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A one-way street is a road where traffic may go in one direction only. Turn into a one-way street.

It moves more traffic and makes every journey longer, which is the trade nobody mentions. A one-way street is also a figure for a relationship where only one side gives.

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Definitions of one-way street

  1. 1nounone-way streetA road where traffic may go in one direction only.B1

    “He went the wrong way up a one-way street and met a bus.”

one-way street is a road.

Where it comes from

One-way plus street; the arrangement spread through cities in the 1920s as motor traffic grew.

From one-way + street.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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