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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
two-man
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They paddled down the river in a two-man canoe.
▪ We all squeezed into Ralph's small two-man tent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hedgerows, first of all, are a two-man job.
▪ However, the smugglers and the two-man refuelling team escaped as a small army detachment opened fire on the police.
▪ In 1984 our two-man junk bond department spoke at a Salomon Brothers seminar for several hundred savings and loan managers.
▪ Just after the two-man advantage expired, Alfredsson had another strong bid on Ranford but the goalie turned it back.
▪ Negotiations are continuing aimed at strengthening a two-man board.
▪ The man he knew only as Hamid was one of the two-man London cell.
▪ They even set up a neat military system of two-man sentry duties, to make sure they stayed alert.
▪ We staked claim to the two-man tents set on a steep slope in the rain forest.

Usage examples of "two-man".

Each horse bore a two-man saddle, with the rear rider armed not with a saber or lance but with a cutdown version of an infantry-dragon.

Every so often a black-uniformed, two-man foot patrol from the Litz Department of Correction would stroll past.

A two-man tail on Dick Stens, two men to swoop on his slightest probation fuckup.

Below her, two-man gliders and private sedan cruisers wove around massive freight hovers as they zipped along the traffic-filled airways.

Following them were more than a half-dozen vehicles: four one- and two-man hoverbikes, three armored cars with their own energy cannons, and, bringing up the rear, a half-track the equal of their own.

These are oneand two-man craft, armed with short-ranged missiles and light lasers, capable of operating up to several light-minutes from their carriers.

A pair of rowers came out of the boathouse carrying a slick-looking two-man shell and entertained her with their efforts to drop the boat into the water and board it before the current could take it downstream.

The two-man crews walked about or lounged between the canvas awnings that sheltered each emplacement.

Either way, it was basically a two-man version of Watch Me, the card-game which had been played in barrooms and bunkhouses and around campfires since the world was young.

A metal saw is produced, one of those two-man band saws that lumberjacks use to cut down trees.

Some carried crates on slings, and others used two-man fitterspoles that had been hanked together and lashed like stretchers for the big boxes.

There were stiff penalties for accusers whose case failed to be submitted to the governor by the two-man Court of First Instance, and these officials were mandated to bar all frivolous matters or any cases which used the Imperial system to settle private quarrels.

Most were the little one and two-man acaltin of fowlers or fishermen, made from a single gutted tree trunk and shaped like a bean pod.

Shortly thereafter, at the open gate, posing as NSA agent Robin Goodfellow, wearing a small backpack that he had taken from the trunk of the Acura, he had greeted Jack Trotter and his two-man prep crew, who arrived in a thirty-eight-foot truck.

This vehicle has a very heavy layered durachrome war hull (120 millimeter) and required a two-man crew, rather than the Mark V's and VI's one-man crew, but in the VII/B the second crewman served solely to control the indirect fire armament.