single-handedly

single-handed | American Dictionary

single-handed
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈsɪŋ·ɡəlˈhæn·dɪd/
involving only one person's work or effort:
The round-the-world single-handed race is sailing's ultimate challenge.

single-handedly

adverbus/ˈsɪŋ·ɡəlˈhæn·dɪd·li/
She single-handedly supported the family after her husband’s death.

single-handed | Business English

single-handed
adverb
ukus
(alsosingle-handedly)
without help from anyone else:
He turned the business around virtually single-handed.
Google was almost single-handedly responsible for making advertising on the internet successful.
single-handed
adjective
uk /ˌsɪŋɡlˈhændɪd/us
done without help from anyone else:
The trucking company took single-handed control of most of the 6,500 independent truckers that service Los Angeles.

Examples of single-handed

single-handed
In view of its systematic character, the public law system provides a rigid backbone which restricts opportunities for swift and single-handed institutional reorganisation.
The practices in the study covered different socio-economic areas and ranged from a small single-handed practice to larger health centres.
Much of their care is provided by single-handed physicians in the community; many of their hospitals are small, under-capitalised institutions run by these same physicians.
Four of the practices are single-handed, and two of the health centres serve practice populations with high numbers of temporary residents.
However, there is no generally accepted criteria list for reviewing economic evaluations, which may be because most of the criteria lists are created single-handed.
Two single-handed rural sites felt it was impractical to collect enough patient contacts in the time period available, so did not participate in this part of the study.
These numbers refer only to single-handed doctors and those who stated that their answers referred to their own personal list, not the practice as a whole.
Administrative changes thus require to go through formal procedures, a process which encourages participation and open conflict of interests, hence working against swift, single-handed institutional reorganisation.
Where the substrate is itself handed, it is essential that it rapidly racemize to replace the material taken up by the single-handed replication of the product.
But the outcome suggests that single-handed exploration is most likely to succeed if the scope is limited, even though this may allow less opportunity for generalisation.
The maximum permitted list for a single-handed principal is 3,500: there is no minimum: the average per principal is 2,292.
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