"single-issue" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more single-issue [comparative], most single-issue [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} single-issue (comparative more single-issue, superlative most single-issue)
  1. (chiefly politics) Concerned with one essential policy area or idea. Categories (topical): Politics
    Sense id: en-single-issue-en-adj-k8oEo-6l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with collocations Topics: government, politics

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          "ref": "1982, Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, Yale University Press, page 8",
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