one-time

See also: onetime

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AdjectiveEdit

one-time (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to a specific time in the past.
Synonyms: former, past, sometime; see also Thesaurus:former

He was the one-time president of the club.
- 1910, Jack London, chapter XIII, in Burning Daylight‎^[1]:
  His one-time investment in a brickyard had put the idea into his head—an idea that he decided was a good one, for it enabled him to suggest that she ride along with him to inspect the quarry.
- 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 18, in Pollyanna‎^[2], L.C. Page, OCLC 33897078:
  Pollyanna never doubted now that John Pendleton was her Aunt Polly's one-time lover; […]
- 1945 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Station Turntables”, in Railway Magazine, page 241, reply to J. A. Drew:
  The old Ramsgate Harbour station of the one-time South Eastern Railway was a case in point, as also the stations in the Isle of Wight that you name, such as Ventnor West.
- 2017 April 13, Adam Forrest, “The death of diesel: has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos?”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:
  Has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos – not to say mustard gas?
Occurring or used in a single instance and then never again.
Synonym: one-off

one-time charge/payment

He was an eloquent speaker, and his slip of the tongue was a one-time error.
- 2007, Markus Jakobsson; Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures‎^[4], Wiley, →ISBN:
  Even if an attacker manages to intercept a one-time password, that password has already been used and is no longer usable to authenticate.

Alternative formsEdit

onetime

Derived termsEdit

one-time pad
OTP (“one-time password”)

TranslationsEdit

of or pertaining to a specific time in the past

Bulgarian: някогашен (bg) (njakogašen)
Esperanto: iama
Finnish: entinen (fi)
German: ehemalig (de)
Hungarian: egykori (hu)

occurring only on one occasion

Bulgarian: еднократен (bg) (ednokraten)
Czech: jednorázový (cs)
Esperanto: unufoja
Finnish: ainutkertainen (fi)
Georgian: ერთჯერადი (ertǯeradi)
German: einmalig (de)
Hungarian: egyszeri (hu)

VerbEdit

one-time (third-person singular simple present one-times, present participle one-timing, simple past and past participle one-timed)

(soccer, ice hockey) To shoot (the ball or puck) directly from a teammate's pass.
- 2013 May 3, Werner Pichler, “Europa League 2012/13, Semifinal, 2nd Leg (R)”, in rec.sport.soccer, Usenet‎^[5]:
  Basel's good moment continued, and in stoppage time of the first half, Streller released Salah with a clever pass down the middle and the young Egyptian one-timed the ball over Čech.