Definition
An election campaign or other competitive situation in which only one competitor is entered or in which only one competitor has a realistic chance of winning.
In Context
- "Although Mr Balladur is far ahead in the opinion polls, the spring election is far from being a one-horse race."
- "A system for creating software that runs, unaltered, on all sorts of computers and devices . . . could transform the software business in the network era from a one-horse race led by Microsoft to a true contest."
- "The dominance of the men in yellow over the past decade turned international cricket into a one-horse race."