for one meaning
EN- AdverbPREfor-SUF-one
- As the first in a number of examples.
- I don't like this carpet - for one, it doesn't suit our lounge room at all and it's also much too expensive.
- As a single given example, often the most obvious or important one and almost certainly enough to sway the argument, of several reasons for something.
- I am ashamed of you, son. We do not condone theft or violence, Ryan. It is, for one, illegal, and may as such may land you in jail or lead to other punishments.
- As one person among other people who may not hold the same opinion.
- As the first in a number of examples.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The reason for equivalization is to allow for household economies of scale–for example, cooking a meal for four people costs less than cooking four separate meals for one person.
- That ill-made doublet of green cloth must be exchanged for one of velvet slashed in the Venetian style like mine own, with hose stuffed and bombasted according to the mode.
- Then the Netherlands scored an additional 3 imps for one fewer undertrick in a vulnerable one no-trump.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- For one thing, they are cheaper and more compact than older systems, which required a vanful of equipment and a dedicated tech nerd and cost thousands of dollars a week to rent.
- For one parade-goer, the new parade is not novel, but a sad reminder that the traditional parade ideal “like everything else connected with downtown St. Catharines is dying.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of for one in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Adverbs
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "for one" is an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb.