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one-man

one-man adjective: involving, done, or operated by only one person.

Adjective

one-man (not comparable)

  1. Involving, done, or operated by only one person.
    • Strictly a one-man wave. Just wasn't room for two surfers.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer
    • 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.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51

one-man meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

one-man in Tamil

ஒருவர் தேவைப்படுகிற, ஒருவர் கொண்ட, ஒருவரால் நடத்தப்படுகிற, ஒருவரால் கண்காணிக்கப்படுகிற

one-man in Malayalam

one-man
ഒറ്റയാൾ oṟṟayāḷ

Words formed from one-man

Phrases with one-man

Questions about one-man

What does one-man mean?
One-man means involving, done, or operated by only one person.
What is one-man in Tamil?
One-man in Tamil is ஒருவர் தேவைப்படுகிற, ஒருவர் கொண்ட, ஒருவரால் நடத்தப்படுகிற. See One-man meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is one-man?
One-man is an adjective.

Words near one-man in the dictionary

  1. one-line sky
  2. one-line whip
  3. one-line whips
  4. one-liner
  5. one-liners
  6. one-man
  7. one-man advantage
  8. one-man army
  9. one-man band
  10. one-man bands
  11. one-man train

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one-man (page history and authors); one-man (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഒറ്റയാൾ (Malayalam) (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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