one-way street
collocation in Englishmeaningsofone-wayandstreet
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one-way
adjective
uk/ˌwʌnˈweɪ/us/ˌwʌnˈweɪ/
travelling or allowing travel in only ...
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street
noun[C]
uk/striːt/us/striːt/
a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or ...
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(Definition ofone-wayandstreetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We analyze the reasons why biorobotics has been essentially aone-waystreet.
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At first glance, enculturation may seem to be aone-waystreet.
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It is precisely a gift, an act of largesse, aone-waystreet.
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Furthermore, the central role of reciprocity also provides grounds for critical reflection on excessively altruistic models that conceptualize organ donation as a moralone-waystreet.
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Until recently, benefits were based on the understanding that disability was aone-waystreet.
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The record indicates that electoral cooperation is aone-waystreet.
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I think it more accurate, however, to view convergence as largely aone-waystreet, but he does not consider this.
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Comparative analysis was marginal to his interest and 'lesson learning' very much aone-waystreet.
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First, it suggests that creativity is aone-waystreetand fails to recognise the creativity of the user and others involved in the conception and production of architecture.
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Technology transfer was largely aone-waystreet.
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Comparison is not aone-waystreet, with all lessons and suggestions heading in the same direction.
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Of particular importance is her contribution to postcolonial theory: her insistence that the interaction between colonizer and colonized never be seen as aone-waystreet. 11.
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Falk's ideas imply that motherese might not be aone-waystreet.
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It strikes me that we have aone-waystreet.
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So this is not wholly aone-waystreet.
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I often wonder how many extra police are used for enforcingone-waystreetsystems and for seeing that cars do not go along certain streets.
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We are only beginning to "fiddle" withone-waystreetsystems.
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That does not surprise me because we had a debate about six months ago about anotherone-waystreetwhich is the wrong way round.
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