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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

one-man en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Involving, done, or operated by only one person.
    • There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight. 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
    • Strictly a one-man wave. Just wasn't room for two surfers. 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

Deriveds

one-man band · one-person · one-woman