adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 in which the front part of one vehicle hits the front part of another vehicle:
a head-on crash / collision
2 in which people express strong views and deal with sth in a direct way:
There was a head-on confrontation between management and unions. * The President is eager to avoid a head-on clash with Congress over his health policies.
head-on adverb:
The cars crashed head-on. * We hit the tree head-on. * to tackle a problem head-on (= without trying to avoid it)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for head-on is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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