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one-man

adjectiveattested in dialogue

Involving, done, or operated by only one person.

adjective

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    Involving, done, or operated by only one person.

    Strictly a one-man wave. Just wasn't room for two surfers.

    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.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).