Meanings
- uncountableA single person who performs a task typically performed by a group.
Near-synonym: one-man band
3 more examples
By this time in my military life cycle it had become clear I was neither a One-Man Army or Superman.
1978, A. S. Newman, United States Army Combat Forces Journal, volume 28, Association of the United States Army, page 68During the past two decades, he's become a one-man army for drawing inspiring lessons from the cavalry's role in Yosemite and taking them to a global public—not only by telling the army story but also, even more impressively, by making that story his own.
2020, Harvey Meyerson, Beth L. Bailey, Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 31Adept at legal lexicon and local government policies, and wielding the weapon of the RTI Act, the self-designated one-man army claims to be able to single- handedly hold the state and developers to account, fighting their collusive abuses.
2023, Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, Sapana Doshi, Corruption Plots, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 68Synonyms: one-man band
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA single person who performs a task typically performed by a group.
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