one-way street

one-way street

English

Etymology

one-way +‎ street

Noun

one-way street (plural one-way streets)

1. A road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction.
2. (figurative) A course of action that cannot be undone or does not lead to reciprocation.
   • 2009, Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Handbook of Managerial Behavior and Occupational Health (page 186)

     Romantic love is not selfless but selfish. Although real love is not altruistic, nor is it narcissistic – a 'me-only', one-way street relationship.

Antonyms

• two-way street

Translations

road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: еднопосо́чна у́лица f (ednoposóčna úlica) Chinese: Cantonese: 單程路, 单程路 (daan1 cing4 lou6) Mandarin: 單向街, 单向街 (dānxiàngjiē), 單向道, 单向道 (dānxiàngdào), 單行道 (zh), 单行道 (zh) (dānxíngdào), 單行街, 单行街 (dānxíngjiē) Czech: jednosměrka f Danish: ensrettet vej c, ensrettet gade c (in a town) Dutch: eenrichtingsstraat (nl) f Finnish: yksisuuntainen katu French: rue à sens unique f German: Einbahnstraße (de) f Greek: μονόδρομος (el) m (monódromos) Hausa: wanwê f Hungarian: egyirányú utca (hu) Icelandic: einstefnugata (is) f Irish: sráid aontreo f Japanese: 一方通行 (ja) (いっぽうつうこう, ippōtsūkō) Korean: 일방통행(一方通行) (ko) (ilbangtonghaeng), 일방통행로(一方通行路) (ilbangtonghaengno) Macedonian: еднонасочна улица f (ednonasočna ulica) Malay: jalan sehala (ms) Polish: jednokierunkowa (ulica) f Portuguese: rua de mão única f Romanian: sens unic (ro) n Russian: у́лица с односторо́нним движе́нием f (úlica s odnostorónnim dvižénijem) Spanish: calle de un solo sentido f, calle de mano única f (Argentina), flecha (es) f (Venezuela, colloquial) Swedish: enkelriktad gata c, enkelriktad väg c