English

Alternative forms

• one-time (mostly UK etc)

Adjective

onetime ‎(not comparable)

1. (principally US) Former.
   • 1891: Howard Pyle, Men of Iron

     "Nay," said he, stoutly, "I be no Lord and I be no Prince, but I be as good as thou. For am I not the son of thy onetime very true comrade and thy kinsman...?

   • 2004: The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report

     A onetime special...forces officer, he had worked with Albright when she was ambassador to the United Nations and had served on the NSC staff with Clarke.

2. (principally US) For a single instance.
   • 1896: Freeman Otis Willey, The Laborer and the Capitalist

     So far as manufacturers, traders, and lawyers use the savings banks, they are very generally of the poorer classes; and these probably own a great majority of the larger onetime deposits.

   • 2004: The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report

     The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase)...

   • 2005: ICCSA 2005, Computational Science And Its Applications

     One of the key characteristics of the proposed onetime password protocol is that attacker cannot use password because it changes every time.

Synonyms

• (former): past, sometime

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