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One-upmanship

Definition: One-upmanship

One-upmanship

Noun

1. The practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: One-upmanship

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

One-Upmanship (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: One-upmanship

DomainTitle

Books

  • Alan Titchmarsh's Avant-Gardening: A Guide to One-Upmanship in the Garden (reference)

  • Delusion and Reality: Gambits, Hoaxes, and Diplomatic One-Upmanship in Vietnam (295P) (reference)

  • One-Upmanship (reference)

  • One-upmanship : being some account of the activities and teaching of the lifemanship correspondence college of one-upness and gameslifemastery (reference)

  • The Complete Upmanship: Including, Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, One-Upmanship, Supermanship. (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: One-upmanship

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

China

One-upmanship can be used to U.S. firms' advantage, as some airport authorities are using imported equipment to emphasize their own high status in the aviation community. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: One-upmanship

"One-upmanship" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "One-upmanship" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: One-upmanship

Language Translations for "one-upmanship"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

умение перещеголять других. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทักษะในการเอาเปรียบคนอื่น. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: One-upmanship

Misspellings

"One-upmanship" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oneupmanship. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: One-upmanship

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-p-p-s-u"

-2 letters: epiphanous, penmanship, pneumonias.

-3 letters: peponiums, pneumonia, upmanship.

-4 letters: eohippus, homespun, houseman, humanise, inhumane, peponium, saponine, unshapen.

-5 letters: amnions, anomies, epinaos, haemins, happens, heinous, homines, impones, inhuman, inhumes, inphase, mannish, mannose, mansion, nappies, noumena, onanism, pension, peonism, phenoms, phonies, pinesap, pinones, pneumas, pushpin, saponin, senopia, shapeup, shipman, shipmen, shippen, shippon, shopman, shopmen, spumone, spumoni, upheaps.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: One-upmanship


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 6E 65 2D 75 70 6D 61 6E 73 68 69 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01101110 01100101 00101101 01110101 01110000 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#110 &#101 &#45 &#117 &#112 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#115 &#104 &#105 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006E 0065 002D 0075 0070 006D 0061 006E 0073 0068 0069 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49807115878279678085747582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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