one-man band
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one-man band (plural one-man bands)
- A musician who plays several musical instruments at once.
- (idiomatic, by extension) An organisation or business that is effectively run by only one person.
- Near-synonym: one-man army
- 2007 December 9, Peter Preston, “Challenges for the rising son”, in The Observer, UK:
- The corporation he will someday inherit—growing, churning—won't work as a one-man band.
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musician who plays several musical instruments
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organisation or business run by one person
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- one-man band on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (musician)