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.
- 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.
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Derived termsEdit
- one-time pad
- OTP (“one-time password”)
TranslationsEdit
of or pertaining to a specific time in the past
occurring only on one occasion
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VerbEdit
one-time (third-person singular simple present one-times, present participle one-timing, simple past and past participle one-timed)
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NounEdit
one-time (uncountable)
Further readingEdit
- one-time at OneLook Dictionary Search