Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in the presence of another; facing.
- adverb In person; directly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective without intervening persons; involving direct communication between persons in each other's presence; -- of conversation or confrontation.
- adjective having the front parts facing each other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A meeting, especially a meeting between two people conducted in person as opposed to a meeting conducted at a distance through technology.
- adjective In one another's
presence . - adverb this sense?) While
physically present.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb directly facing each other
- adverb within each other's presence
- adjective in each other's presence
Etymologies
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Examples
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What is it about telling your story in the room, face-to-face, that is so much more effective than written text or digital story-telling when it comes to persuasion?
Arianna Huffington: Why Peter Guber's Book Tell to Win Is a Game Changer Arianna Huffington 2011
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What is it about telling your story in the room, face-to-face, that is so much more effective than written text or digital story-telling when it comes to persuasion?
Arianna Huffington: Why Peter Guber's Book Tell to Win Is a Game Changer Arianna Huffington 2011
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What is it about telling your story in the room, face-to-face, that is so much more effective than written text or digital story-telling when it comes to persuasion?
Arianna Huffington: Why Peter Guber's Book Tell to Win Is a Game Changer Arianna Huffington 2011
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In this study I shall try to be concerned with one type of regulation only, the kind that governs a person’s handling of himself and others during, and by virtue of, his immediate physical presence among them; what is called face-to-face or immediate interaction will be involved.
Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963
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They require an old-fashioned sales technique that long predates the digital age - what Carol Bartz, the Yahoo chief executive, calls "face-to-face relationship selling."
NYT > Home Page By RANDALL STROSS 2011
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In our face-to-face talks, we had spent a good deal of time dancing around the language of democracy and enfranchisement.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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In our face-to-face talks, we had spent a good deal of time dancing around the language of democracy and enfranchisement.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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One advantage that slave women had over free women was that a rapist who attacked a woman he owned would have to live, face-to-face and every day, with the shame, resentment, disruption, and threats of violence that his act produced.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In our face-to-face talks, we had spent a good deal of time dancing around the language of democracy and enfranchisement.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Religious tension can be exposed during interactions on a personal scale, as in face-to-face conversations.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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