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face-to-face

nounadjectiveadverbattested in dialogue

A meeting, especially a meeting between two people conducted in person as opposed to a meeting conducted at a distance through technology.

noun

  1. 1

    A meeting, especially a meeting between two people conducted in person as opposed to a meeting conducted at a distance through technology.

    "If you want to have a face-to-face with Charlie?" I asked W.R., "Why invite the rest of us?"

    In an unprecedented move, Clifford went to Chicago to have a face-to-face with Tony's superiors.

    It was not like Friedman didn't try to have a face-to-face with Lazar.

Etymology

face + to + face

adjective

  1. 1

    In one another's presence.

    a face-to-face meeting

    The complexity of having so many organisations involved, and the deep integration required, has undoubtedly tested the interpersonal skills of project leaders who have had little face-to-face contact.

adverb

  1. 1

    While physically present.

    I came face-to-face with her on the battlefield recently. Resistance vs. Roekaar. My favorite mother looked at me with the kindness and empathy that I remembered… then she shot me.

Forms

plural
face-to-faces
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).