one-upmanship

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.

   “They are focused on one-upmanship, which is the essence of a competitive spirit.”

2. isim A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.

   “Even these debates rarely constituted an exchange of ideas; they more resembled a contest of sectional champions, or a game of righteous, intellectual, and regional one-upsmanship.”