one-way flow

collocation in English

meaningsofone-wayandflow

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one-way
adjective
uk
/ˌwʌnˈweɪ/us
/ˌwʌnˈweɪ/
travelling or allowing travel in only ...
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flow
noun
uk
/fləʊ/us
/floʊ/
the movement of something in ...
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(Definition ofone-wayandflowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofone-way flow

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Unfortunately, thisone-wayflowis institutionally entrenched, historically from colonial times, and contextually within the broader framework of new public management and related reforms.
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Free radio communities function almost as proto-communities - as emergent communication communities that break theone-wayflowof communication to make the hearer speak.
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Solidarity allows for a sustainedone-wayflowin favour of the have-nots, while reciprocity is characterised by an inability to tolerate a structurally unbalanced exchange.
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Hausman endogeneity tests, used to establish the direction of causality, indicated aone-wayflowof influence from prejudice to policy preferences.
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At best, that is often self-selecting and aone-wayflow.
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It is always important to remember that migration never has been, and never will be, a completelyone-wayflow.
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Aone-wayflowsystem might cause inconvenience, but it is right to say that no trials have taken place.
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I have never believed in aone-wayflow.
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It can only be aone-wayflowfor this evening-out, debt-avoiding and overdraft-avoiding purpose.
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It is not aone-wayflow.
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The material is engineered in such a fashion as to allow onlyone-wayflowthrough the system.
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Theone-wayflowpattern in the exhibit moves the visitors through twenty-five birds habitats, ranging from desert to tropical forest.
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This creates a mostlyone-wayflowof information, and exposure to mostly western products and values.
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The path along the chain can form either aone-wayflowor a food web.
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