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person-to-ˈperson, a. (and adv.) phr.
a. Designating a personal telephone call: see personal call s.v. personal a. 10. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1919N.Y. City Telephone Directory 20/2 A Person-to-Person Toll Call is one made by name for a particular person reached through a telephone which is located outside the local service area and at a point to which there is a person-to-person toll rate. 1933Sat. Even. Post 11 Feb. 57 There are two classes of Long Distance calls: station-to-station and person-to-person... When the caller asks the operator for a specific individual, the person-to-person rate applies. 1960R. L. C. Fitz Gibbon When Kissing had to Stop viii. 128 I've put through a personal call, what they call a person-to-person call over there. 1973C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing xx. 222 They stopped by the call-box..and Tarrant got the operator to put through a person-to-person call. 1973Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) Mar. 70/2 Person-to-person calls are, of course, more expensive than station-to-station calls. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 50 A representative of the Columbus Police Department placed a person-to-person call to Dr. Edward Hudson in Padananim.
b. Taking place directly between individuals; interpersonal.
1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. i. 30 Some anthropologists have argued that a social structure is the network of all person-to-person relations in a society. 1954[see high-potential s.v. high a. 22 a.]. 1960Times 12 Feb. 4/6 Person-to-person communication between specialists is much less satisfactory in applied science. 1965H. Kahn On Escalation xiii. 248 The person-to-person meeting of Khrushchev and Kennedy. 1970Hospital Tribune 26 Jan., Person-to-person spread probably accounted for the introduction of new cases into communities. 1977Proc. R. Soc. Med. LXX. 553/1 Leukaemia and Hodgkin's disease are unusual among neoplastic disorders in man in often having aroused suspicion of person-to-person transmission or an infective aetiology.
As adv. phr. (usu. without hyphens).
1971G. Cuttle in B. de Ferranti Living with Computer i. 4 This does not mean that in future all contact will be person-to-person over the telephone and viewing screen. 1977B. Lucas tr. C. De Foucauld's Lett. from Desert vii. 128 Apostolic work..as I envisage it consists in talking person to person with infidels. |