single-handedadjective
uk/ˌsɪŋ.ɡəlˈhæn.dɪd/us/ˌsɪŋ.ɡəlˈhæn.dɪd/without any help from anyone else:
a single-handed voyage
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Unaided and working alone
- fend for yourself
- go
- go it alone idiom
- independent
- own
- self-help
- self-reliant
- self-sufficient
- stand
- stand on your own (two) feet idiom
- stand-alone
- steam
- throw
- throw sb back on their own resources idiom
- unaided
- unassisted
- under your own steam idiom
- unsupported
- with your own fair hand(s) idiom
- yourself
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single-handedly
adverb uk/ˌsɪŋ.ɡəlˈhæn.dɪd.li/us/ˌsɪŋ.ɡəlˈhæn.dɪd.li/
She single-handedly supported the family after her husband’s death.