Usually means: Striving to outdo others constantly.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word one-upmanship:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. one-upmanship: Merriam-Webster
  2. one-upmanship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. one-upmanship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. one-upmanship, one-upmanship: Collins English Dictionary
  5. one-upmanship: Vocabulary.com
  6. one-upmanship: Wordnik
  7. one-upmanship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. one-upmanship: Wiktionary
  9. one-upmanship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. one-upmanship: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. one-upmanship: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. one-upmanship: Dictionary.com
  13. one-upmanship: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. One-Upmanship, One-upmanship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. one-upmanship: Rhymezone
  16. one-upmanship: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. one-upmanship: FreeDictionary.org
  18. one-upmanship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. one-upmanship: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. one-upmanship: Idioms

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▸ noun:  The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.
▸ noun:  A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.

Similar:
one-up-manship, one-upsmanship, oneupmanship, outdoing, upmanship, one-upwomanship, one up, leg up on, surpassing, overachievement, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, egalitarianism

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Similar:
one-up-manship, one-upsmanship, oneupmanship, outdoing, upmanship, one-upwomanship, one up, leg up on, surpassing, overachievement, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, egalitarianism



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