one-time
one-time adjective: of or pertaining to a specific period of time in the past, not extending to the present.
Adjective
one-time (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a specific period of time in the past, not extending to the present.
- He was the one-time president of the club.
- 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.1910, Jack London, chapter XIII, in Burning Daylight
- Occurring or used in a single instance and then never again.
- one-time charge/payment
- He was an eloquent speaker, and his slip of the tongue was a one-time error.
- Synonyms:
- one-off
Verb
one-time (third-person singular simple present one-times, present participle one-timing, simple past and past participle one-timed)
- To shoot (the ball or puck) directly from a teammate's pass.
- 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.2013 May 3, Werner Pichler, “Europa League 2012/13, Semifinal, 2nd Leg (R)”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet)
Noun
the one-time
- The police.
- Ayo, it's Hell on Earth
Whose necks are gonna be first?
The projects is front line
And the enemy is one-time
I ain't gotta tell you
It's right in front of your eyes1996, Mobb Deep, “Front Lines (Hell on Earth)”, in Hell on Earth
- Ayo, it's Hell on Earth
one-time meaning in Malayalam
one-time in Malayalam
- previous, former, ex-
- ഒരുകാലത്തെ, മുമ്പിലത്തെ, കീഴ്, മുന്നത്തെ, മുൻ, പഴയ
Examples of one-time in a sentence
- Pollyanna never doubted now that John Pendleton was her Aunt Polly's one-time lover; […]1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 18, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
- 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.1945 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Station Turntables”, in Railway Magazine, page 241, reply to J. A. Drew:
- Has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos – not to say mustard gas?2017 April 13, Adam Forrest, “The death of diesel: has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos?”, in The Guardian:
- Even if an attacker manages to intercept a one-time password, that password has already been used and is no longer usable to authenticate.2007, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, Wiley, →ISBN:
Synonyms of one-time
Forms of one-time
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | onetime |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | one-times |
| present participle | one-timing |
| past participle | one-timed |
| past | one-timed |
Words formed from one-time
Phrases with one-time
Questions about one-time
- What does one-time mean?
- One-time means of or pertaining to a specific period of time in the past, not extending to the present.
- What is one-time in Malayalam?
- One-time in Malayalam is ഒരുകാലത്തെ, മുമ്പിലത്തെ, കീഴ്. See One-time meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use one-time in a sentence?
- Pollyanna never doubted now that John Pendleton was her Aunt Polly's one-time lover; […]
- What part of speech is one-time?
- One-time can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
Words near one-time in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: one-time (page history and authors); one-time (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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