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Number one

noun

A reference to yourself or myself etc.; 'take care of number one' means to put your own interests first.

The first or highest in an ordering or series. Synonym: first.

The first element in a countable series. Synonyms: first, number 1.

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"Number one" Quotes from Famous Books

... castle, eh? Just as I thought. I'd like to take you to him, especially as he is ill, but I must take care of number one. When I dropped out of one villain's employment I went into business for myself. You see, there is about 100,000 francs reward for you, and there is the same for the bodies of the abductors. If I turn you over to your mother ...

— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon

... the seats are pleasanter than curb-stones, While the trees make quite a shelter from the sun, And the grass does nicely for the crawling babies— But somebody must think of Number One! ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 • Various

... essentially private-enterprise economy, tourism is the number one foreign exchange earner followed by exports of marine products, citrus, cane sugar, bananas, and garments. The government's expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, initiated in September 1998, led to sturdy GDP growth averaging nearly 4% in 1999-2007. Oil discoveries in 2006 bolstered ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the intention was to have twenty men, each armed with two disintegrators (that being the largest number one person could carry to advantage) descend from the electrical ship and make the venture. But, after further discussion, this number was reduced; first to a dozen, and finally, to only four. These four consisted of Mr. Edison, Colonel Smith, Mr. ...

— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss

... Strong. "I'll take number one, you take number two. We're in section twenty-three of quadrant B. You take section twenty-two ...

— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell

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