face-to-face

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   within each other's presence

   They met the president face-to-face.

2. 2
   adv

   directly facing each other

   the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table

3. 3
   adj

   in each other's presence

   a face-to-face encounter

4. 4
   noun

   A meeting, especially a meeting between two people conducted in person as opposed to a meeting conducted at a distance through technology.

   "If you want to have a face-to-face with Charlie?" I asked W.R., "Why invite the rest of us?"

5. 5
   adj

   In one another's presence.

   a face-to-face meeting

6. 6
   adv

   While physically present.

   I came face-to-face with her on the battlefield recently. Resistance vs. Roekaar. My favorite mother looked at me with the kindness and empathy that I remembered… then she shot me.

Etymology

face + to + face