
Meaning of ONE-UPMANSHIP
| Pronunciation: | | 'wun'upmun`ship, wun'upmunsh`ip
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| | Definition: | | [n] the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor |
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| | See Also: | | pattern, practice | |
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplishment, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, ascendancy, astuteness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, competition, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, cutthroat competition, deanship, emulation, excellence, favor, fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, gamesmanship, greatness, guile, incomparability, ingeniousness, inimitability, insidiousness, inventiveness, Italian hand, jockeying, lead, lifemanship, majority, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, privilege, readiness, resourcefulness, right-of-way, rivalry, satanic cunning, seniority, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, success, superiority, suppleness, transcendence, transcendency, trickiness, virtuosity, vying, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit |
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