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one-man
[ wuhn-man ]
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.
one-man
adjective
- consisting of or done by or for one man
a one-man band
a one-man show
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Word History and Origins
Origin of one-man1
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Example Sentences
When he returned to New York, Lemkin became a one-man lobbying machine.
As a cultural corrective, Hayes is currently touring in a one-man show titled Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes.
He opens up about the bogus Midnight Express, Oliver Stone on blow, and his riveting one-man show.
Meerson traces this scarcity of one-man performers back to a culture of collectivism that predates even the Communist revolution.
“Balko has been a kind of one-man category creator on this stuff,” said Reason editor in chief Matt Welch.
Is it a consequence, and partially an aspect of each being, like man and one-man, essence and one-essence?
It bounded back, moving swiftly out of the way of the advancing one-man army.
Generally operating like a one-man army of vandals, I laid waste to the Farrow home.
It was a beneficent autocracy, a sample of one-man power, beautifully expressed.
You reached it by a ladder from a second-floor one-man office.
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