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lone gunman

lone gunman noun: an individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous.

Noun

lone gunman (plural lone gunmen)

  1. (idiomatic) An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous.
    • He continues, "So when someone blows the whistle, the hospital has to start looking for a scapegoat. The hospital looks for the lone gunman—the individual, acting alone, acting counter to his training, who, through a gross act of incompetence . . . ."2002, Jed Mercurio, Bodies, →ISBN, page 340
    • Trial lawyers, always a colorful and eclectic bunch. . . . Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep much of a staff.2008, John Grisham, The Appeal, →ISBN, pages 197–198
    Synonyms:
    maverick, rogue

lone gunman meaning in Bengali

lone gunman in Bengali

কোনো অংশীদার ছাড়াই

Synonyms of lone gunman

Forms of lone gunman

plurallone gunmen

Origin of lone gunman

From the Warren Commission's lone gunman theory, that the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was the work of a single individual, subsequently applied to numerous other political assassinations and shootings.

Questions about lone gunman

What does lone gunman mean?
Lone gunman means an individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous.
What is lone gunman in Bengali?
Lone gunman in Bengali is কোনো অংশীদার ছাড়াই. See Lone gunman meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is lone gunman?
Lone gunman is a noun.
What is the plural of lone gunman?
The plural of lone gunman is lone gunmen.

Words near lone gunman in the dictionary

  1. Londrigan
  2. Londrina
  3. Londynn
  4. lone
  5. Lone Butte
  6. lone gunman
  7. lone gunmen
  8. lone it
  9. lone pair
  10. lone pairs
  11. Lone Pine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lone gunman (page history and authors); lone gunman (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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