face-to-face encounter
collocation in Englishmeaningsofface-to-faceandencounter
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face-to-face
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk/ˌfeɪs.təˈfeɪs/us/ˌfeɪs.təˈfeɪs/
directly, meeting someone in the ...
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encounter
noun[C]
uk/ɪnˈkaʊn.tər/us/ɪnˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ/
a meeting, especially one that happens ...
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(Definition offace-to-faceandencounterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofface-to-face encounter
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Similarly, political rallies back at home provided an occasion for aface-to-faceencounterin which representatives' commitment and endeavour could be appraised by their supporters.
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So there was a personal, direct,face-to-faceencounterbetween two widely conflicting views.
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There is noface-to-faceencounter.
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The couple then went on what was essentially a blind date, their first (and often only)face-to-faceencounter.
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Works must be created through aface-to-faceencounterwith the subject.
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A violation of relationships requires a restoration process which incorporates voluntariness, truth telling, and aface-to-faceencounter.
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It means that, ethically, people are responsible to one-another in theface-to-faceencounter.
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The linear progression of time is ruptured by visions, which, like hadiths, involve sense experiences, witnessing, face-to-face encounters, and immediacy.
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In their face-to-face encounters at rallies, less-educated supporters found a means of testing their representatives' commitment and holding them to account.
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Some dream visions are understood as face-to-face encounters with imaginary interlocutors, emulating the genre of the hadith.
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Lvinas' phenomenological account of theface-to-faceencounterserves as the basis for his ethics and the rest of his philosophy.
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Although this concept might seem similar to the notion of "social capital", the author prefers to use the former to emphasize the peculiarity of face-to-face encounters.
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Parallel to the personal encounters that are so central to the hadith sciences, dreams and visions often involve face-to-face encounters.
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Unlike single, bounded face-to-face encounters, speakers in an incipient state of talk do not use greetings to initiate talk, nor do they issue goodbyes prior to a lapse in talk.
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In contrast to the rather ambiguous concept of social capital, relational capital refers to positive externalities derived from face-to-face encounters, thus capturing the micro-level aspect of social interactions.
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As it stands today, most text, email, and instant messages offer fewer nonverbal cues about the speakers feelings than do face-to-face encounters.
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