- involving direct contact or exchange between individuals: The disease is spread through person-to-person contact.Diplomacy requires person-to-person encounters at the highest levels of government.
- (of a long-distance telephone call) chargeable only upon speaking with a specified person at the number called: She made a person-to-person call to her brother in California.
- face-to-face; in person: They interviewed her person-to-person.
- (in making a long-distance telephone call) to a specified person: I telephoned him person-to-person.
