person-to-person

1. 1.

   involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties

   “a person-to-person interview”

   “person-to-person telephone calls”

   Similarpersonal

1. 1.

   (of two persons) in direct encounter

   “preferred to settle the matter one-on-one”

   “interviewed her person-to-person”

   Synonymsone-on-one

Questions about person-to-person

What does person-to-person mean?

person-to-person means "involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in person-to-person?

person-to-person has 5 syllables: per-son--to--per-son. The stress falls on "to-".

What is another word for person-to-person?

Close synonyms include one-on-one. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is person-to-person a common word?

person-to-person is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.