one-step
Americannoun
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a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
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a piece of music for this dance.
verb (used without object)
noun
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an early 20th-century ballroom dance with long quick steps, the precursor of the foxtrot
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a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
Etymology
Origin of one-step
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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They note that many customers would prefer a one-step process for the sake of ease, keeping not only their what-should-we-have-for-dinner decisions but also their payments on a single platform.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026
Chinese investors are spending millions of dollars to build plants to process lithium, one-step up the value chain, in a form that Zimbabwe would allow to exit.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
In the one-step forward, one-step back world Manchester United are living in just now, they took a stride in the right direction against Wolves at Molineux.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025
The researchers used this one-step manufacturing process to generate a prototype that could heat fluid by 4 degrees Celsius as it flowed between the input and the output.
From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023
Three fourths of all the cases reported were simple one-step computations with integers or United States money.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
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