end-to-end

end-to-end

English

Adjective

end-to-end (not comparable)

1. (of a collection of items) Arranged such that each end of a given item is adjacent to one end of a different item.

   We lay the bricks end-to-end in one long line.

2. From one end to the other.

   The end-to-end trip takes about forty minutes.

3. (soccer) Smoothly alternating between attacking and defensive plays.
   • 2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC‎:

     But rather than the end-to-end action of the first half, much of the entertainment took place in the Sunderland third.

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