Usually means: Allows passage in only one direction.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word one-way:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. one-way: Merriam-Webster
  2. one-way: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. one-way: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. one-way, one-way: Collins English Dictionary
  5. one-way: Vocabulary.com
  6. One-Way, One-way, one-way: Wordnik
  7. one-way: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. one-way: Wiktionary
  9. one-way: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. one-way: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. one-way: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. one-way: Dictionary.com
  13. one-way: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. one-way: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. One-way: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. one-way: Rhymezone
  17. one-way: FreeDictionary.org
  18. one-way: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. one-way: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. one-way: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. one-way: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Allowing movement, vision, etc. in only one direction; unidirectional.
adjective:  Allowing travel in only one direction.
adjective:  (computer science) Of a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input.
verb:  (agriculture) To use a disc harrow to turn the soil and kill weeds, in preparation for planting seeds.

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