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Meaning of one-man army | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A single person who performs a task typically performed by a group.

uncountable

Examples

“Near-synonym: one-man band”
“By this time in my military life cycle it had become clear I was neither a One-Man Army or Superman.”
“During 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.”
“Adept 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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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