one-man
Americanadjective
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of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person.
a one-man office; a one-man band.
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preferring or seeking romantic involvement with one man only.
a one-man woman.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of one-man
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.
From Los Angeles Times
He wrote on the side, including an autobiographical one-man play.
It was a one-man operation, and not very successful because I ran it on foot—or on a pair of skis when the snow came—and I rarely got over a twenty-mile trapline.
From Literature
At this World Cup, they have scrambled an escape against Nepal, scraped past Scotland and Italy when the walls threatened to crumble in, and beat Sri Lanka with one of the great one-man shows.
From BBC
And he reveals that, when Joey’s acting career failed to take off, he planned a one-man show for himself.
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