one-way street

English

Etymology

From one-way +‎ street.

Noun

one-way street (plural one-way streets)

1. A road in which traffic is allowed to proceed in only one direction.
2. (figurative) A course of action that cannot be undone.
3. (figurative) Something that lacks reciprocity.
   • 2006 April 27, Lisa, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Judaism is not about reading your personal experiences into Jewish ritual, waving a wand, and declaring the result "Judaism". Vietnam has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on Torah values. Torah values can, obviously, have a bearing on Vietnam, or on anything else, but it's a one-way street.

   • 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 / 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 (Brazil)
• 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