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one-man army en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A single person who performs a task typically performed by a group.
   • Adept at legal lexicon and local government policies, and wielding the weapon of the RTI Act, the self-designated one-man army claims to be able to single- handedly hold the state and developers to account, fighting their collusive abuses. 2023, Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, Sapana Doshi, Corruption Plots, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 68:
   • Near-synonym: one-man band
   • By this time in my military life cycle it had become clear I was neither a One-Man Army or Superman. 1978, A. S. Newman, United States Army Combat Forces Journal, volume 28, Association of the United States Army, page 68:
   • During the past two decades, he's become a one-man army for drawing inspiring lessons from the cavalry's role in Yosemite and taking them to a global public—not only by telling the army story but also, even more impressively, by making that story his own. 2020, Harvey Meyerson, Beth L. Bailey, Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 31:

Relateds

you and whose army

Synonyms

one-man band