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one-up-manship en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of one-upmanship.
   alt of one-upmanship
   • Ebiz.com also developed a culture of time one-up-manship‚ in which employees challenged each other to stay for longer and longer hours. 2006, Bonnie Kaplan, Duane P. Truex, David Wastell, Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice, →ISBN:
   • In the lounge, Lorenson was at a desk in the corner looking over his notes, and suppressing a smile at this bit of one-up-manship (or even worse, one-up-womanship) over Brewster. 2002, Johnny John Heinz, Means to an End, →ISBN, page 94:
   • In truth, he'd passed me by with a devilish grin on his face and a look of challenging one-up-manship. 2006, Ken Ewell, Traveling with Philosophes, →ISBN, page 479:

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