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single-issue

single-issue adjective: concerned with one essential policy area or idea.

Adjective

single-issue (comparative more single-issue, superlative most single-issue)

  1. Concerned with one essential policy area or idea.
    • single-issue party
    • The concern about ungovernability in the United States often takes the form of complaints about “single-issue” politics and the limited influence and discipline of American political parties.1982, Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 8

Forms of single-issue

comparativemore single-issue
superlativemost single-issue

Words formed from single-issue

Questions about single-issue

What does single-issue mean?
Single-issue means concerned with one essential policy area or idea.
What part of speech is single-issue?
Single-issue is an adjective.

Words near single-issue in the dictionary

  1. single-hearted
  2. single-heartedly
  3. single-heartedness
  4. single-incision laparoscopic surgeries
  5. single-incision laparoscopic surgery
  6. single-issue
  7. single-issueism
  8. single-lens reflex
  9. single-lens reflexes
  10. single-line whip
  11. single-line whips

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