one-man

[ wuhn-man ]

adjective

1. of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person:

   a one-man office; a one-man band.

2. preferring or seeking romantic involvement with one man only:

   a one-man woman.

one-man

adjective

1. consisting of or done by or for one man

   a one-man band

   a one-man show

Word History and Origins

Origin of one-man¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

When he returned to New York, Lemkin became a one-man lobbying machine.

From The Daily Beast

As a cultural corrective, Hayes is currently touring in a one-man show titled Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes.

From The Daily Beast

He opens up about the bogus Midnight Express, Oliver Stone on blow, and his riveting one-man show.

From The Daily Beast

Meerson traces this scarcity of one-man performers back to a culture of collectivism that predates even the Communist revolution.

From The Daily Beast

“Balko has been a kind of one-man category creator on this stuff,” said Reason editor in chief Matt Welch.

From The Daily Beast

Is it a consequence, and partially an aspect of each being, like man and one-man, essence and one-essence?

From Project Gutenberg

It bounded back, moving swiftly out of the way of the advancing one-man army.

From Project Gutenberg

Generally operating like a one-man army of vandals, I laid waste to the Farrow home.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a beneficent autocracy, a sample of one-man power, beautifully expressed.

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You reached it by a ladder from a second-floor one-man office.

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