English
Etymology
From one+time.
Adjective
en-adj|-
- former|Former.
#*1891: Howard Pyle, Men of Iron 1
#*:"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 2
#*: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.
- For a single instance.
#*1896: Freeman Otis Willey, The Laborer and the Capitalist 3
#*: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 4
#*: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 5
#*:One of the key characteristics of the proposed onetime password protocol is that attacker cannot use password because it changes every time.
ru:onetime
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