say it: FAY-stoo-fays
face-to-face is an adverb and adjective meaning "within each other's presence". It carries 3 recorded senses.
directly facing each other
“the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table”
“lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street”
“they sat opposite at the table”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for face-to-face come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.