Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-woman \one-woman\ adj. Designed for or restricted to a single person; same as one-man, but used when the person in question is female, or to avoid sexist language; as, a one-woman submarine; a one-woman show.
Syn: one-man, one-person.
WordNet
adj. designed for or restricted to a single person; "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent" [syn: one-man(a), one-person(a), one-woman(a)]
Usage examples of "one-man".
Within three hours, John Carter was standing on the roof of the Royal Airdrome giving last-minute instructions to a fleet of twenty-four fast, one-man scouts.
Returning to the billiard room, The Shadow was just settling down to a one-man game, when he heard Kelford at the doorway of the grill room.
There were thousands of them, blackening the sky, one-man sleds with souped-up engines for more speed, armed to the teeth with bolted-down energy guns and heavy projectile weapons, with long ribbons of bullets.
Fran already fading as the excitement of what lay before him intensified and spread itself out in his mind, exposing to his mental light all the ramifications and historical aspects of his one-man Odyssean undertaking.
That year, he had a one-man exhibit of his sculpture and furniture at Unica Design in Bethesda, Maryland, and he showed his work at the Studio Garden Show in Great Falls.
Today there was no sound man present and Minh was using one-man equipment, a Betacam with half-inch tape incorporating picture and sound.
The one-man army was striding along their flank with the M-2O3 at full bellow, roaring out angry little chunks of high explosives in forty-millimetre packages, bringing daylight to the night and final darkness to those who tarried too long in the midst of the firestorm.
Oftentimes in finding how sadly ignorant of really essential and vital facts and rules were some of those whom we had been larding with the choicest scraps of science, I have doubted whether the old one-man system of teaching, when the one man was of the right sort, did not turn out better working physicians than our more elaborate method.
Secret and semi-overt designs to turn the farce into a one-man play: Jochen Sawatzki soliloquizes as he cooks sugarbeets.
A year ago the place had been a quiet one-man camp from which Jack Holloway prospected for sunstones and lived a peaceably solitary life.
In the temperatures we had on the summer journeys there was no difficulty in keeping warm enough with the one-man bags, and they were used by all of us.
One of the first things I did was take out the regular bullets and put tracers in there because to be perfectly honest, I was interested in the one-man truce with North Vietnam.
Far less ax-work being requir'd, soon the Axmen are down to Stig alone, who when ask'd to, becomes a one-man assault force on behalf of the Astronomers.
Most especially how to be a one-man catastrophe yourself while keeping track of fifty other men, nursing them, loving them, leading them, saving thembut never babying them.
Nest and Bennett had gone through a traumatic and life-altering experience over a Fourth of July weekend that saw John Ross come and go from Hopewell like a one-man wrecking crew.