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Definition of one-upmanship in English Turkish dictionary
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Definition of one-upmanship in English English dictionary
- A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor
- The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor
He always engaged in one-upmanship.
- disapproval If you refer to someone's behaviour as one-upmanship, you disapprove of them trying to make other people feel inferior in order to make themselves appear more important. political one-upmanship. attempts to make yourself seem better than other people, no matter what they do
- the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor
one-upmanship
Hyphenation
one-up·man·shipTurkish pronunciation
wʌnʌpmınşîpSynonyms
artfulness, bettering, cageyness, canniness, competition, competitive advantage, competitive edge, cunning, cutthroat, gamesmanship, outfoxing, outsmarting, outwitting, rivalingPronunciation
/ˈwənˈəpmənˌsʜəp/ /ˈwʌnˈʌpmənˌʃɪp/
Etymology
() one-up + -manshipResimler
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