one-upmanship

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (disapproving) the skill of getting an advantage over other people

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

one-upmanshipEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus one-upmanshipEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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one-off one-on-one one-parent family one-piece onerous oneself one-shot one-sided one-stop one-time one-to-one

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one-upmanship