one-man

[ wuhn-man ]

/ ˈwʌnˌmæn /

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adjective

of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person: a one-man office; a one-man band.

preferring or seeking romantic involvement with one man only: a one-man woman.

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Origin of one-man

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby one-man

one jump ahead, one-legged, one-liner, one-lung, one-lunger, one-man, one-man show, One man's meat is another man's poison, one-many, on end, oneness

How to use one-man in a sentence

When he returned to New York, Lemkin became a one-man lobbying machine.
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As a cultural corrective, Hayes is currently touring in a one-man show titled Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes.
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He opens up about the bogus Midnight Express, Oliver Stone on blow, and his riveting one-man show.
The Unbelievable (True) Story of the World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler|Marlow Stern|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Meerson traces this scarcity of one-man performers back to a culture of collectivism that predates even the Communist revolution.
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“Balko has been a kind of one-man category creator on this stuff,” said Reason editor in chief Matt Welch.
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Is it a consequence, and partially an aspect of each being, like man and one-man, essence and one-essence?
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It bounded back, moving swiftly out of the way of the advancing one-man army.
The Whispering Spheres|Russell Robert Winterbotham
Generally operating like a one-man army of vandals, I laid waste to the Farrow home.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith
It was a beneficent autocracy, a sample of one-man power, beautifully expressed.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12|Elbert Hubbard
You reached it by a ladder from a second-floor one-man office.
The Syndic|C.M. Kornbluth

British Dictionary definitions for one-man

one-man

adjective

consisting of or done by or for one mana one-man band; a one-man show

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