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At one time, during one period. For example, The cruise ship could feed about 500 passengers at a sitting , or We read the entire poem at a sitting . Since the word sitting implies just that posture, the term means “during a period when one is seated and engaged in a single continuous activity.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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