English Dictionary

one-upmanship

IPA（発音記号）

/(ˌ)wʌnˈʌpmənʃɪp/

名詞

The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor. / A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.

日本語の意味

相手を次々と上回る技術や行為 / 競争相手を凌駕する連続的な行動や態度

Their dinner-party conversation descended into petty one-upmanship as each guest tried to top the last story.

彼らのディナーパーティーの会話は、客たちが次々と前の話を上回ろうとする些細な出し抜き合戦に陥った。

意味（1）

The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.

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

意味（2）

A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.

I think all readers will be impressed by the manner in which Marwick places his own analysis in relation to previous studies both of sorcery and of conflict in general. His punctiliousness here contrasts sharply with the practice of some anthropologists who, in a contest of one-upmanship, score points either by ignoring earlier work or even by baldly asserting that it was all wrong.

one-upmanships （ plural ）