one-time

See also: onetime and one time

English

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Adjective

one-time (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a specific period of time in the past, not extending to the present.

   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:

     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?

2. 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 forms

• onetime

Derived terms

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

Translations

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)

Verb

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

1. (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^[5] (Usenet):

     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.

Related terms

• one-timer

Noun

the one-time

1. (US, slang) The police.

Further reading

• “one-time”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• meneito, temenoi