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Definition of Person-to-person
1. Adjective. Involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties. "Person-to-person telephone calls"
2. Adverb. (of two persons) in direct encounter. "Interviewed her person-to-person"
Definition of Person-to-person
1. Adjective. (context: of a telephone call) Such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a loan) Such that the lender and borrower are individuals rather than companies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Person-to-person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Smoking Cessation: Clinical Practice Guideline by Michael C. Fiore (1996)
"Efficacy of and cessation rates for various durations of person-to-person
treatment (n = 55 studies) was categorized as one or fewer sessions, ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The term contagion is also in common use to denote the actual propagation of
diseases of a specific nature from person to person. ..."
3. Vital Statistics: A Memorial Volume of Selections from the Reports and by William Farr (1885)
"This bas an important bearing on every kind of intercommunication. The distance
to be travelled in going from person to person in England and Wales, ..."
4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Communication, as we have secn, may he from person to person, or to things, or
to persons and things, at the same time. When it is from person to person, ..."
5. Remarks and Criticisms on the Hon. John Quincy Adams's Letter to the Hon by William Coleman (1808)
"The changing from person to person, from subject to person, or from person to
subject, within the same period, is not allowable. ..."
6. The ABCs of Safe & Healthy Child Care: A Handbook for Child Care Providers by Cynthia M. Hale, Jacqueline A. Polder (2000)
"However, this pattern can vary from person to person. It is believed to be spread
person-to-person when a susceptible person is exposed to respiratory tract ..."
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