at a time en · ADP
Meanings
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In a single, continuous period of time.
He manages to abstain from smoking for weeks at a time, but then gives in and starts again.
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Simultaneously at each occurrence (of some action).
climb stairs two at a time
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, a, time.
We can't buy a new car at a time when we are already running low on money.
Antonyms
severally (antonym(s) of “simultaneously at each occurrence”) · singly (antonym(s) of “simultaneously at each occurrence”) · separately (antonym(s) of “simultaneously at each occurrence”) · one at a time (antonym(s) of “simultaneously at each occurrence”) · individually (antonym(s) of “simultaneously at each occurrence”) · piecemeal (antonym(s) of “simultaneously at each occurrence”)
Deriveds
Synonyms
at once (simultaneously at each occurrence) · simultaneously · at a stretch (in a single, continuous period of time) · at one time · together · in a row (in a single, continuous period of time) · at the same time
Translations (30)
eo samtempe (simultaneously) · sk naraz (simultaneously) · nl tegelijk (in a continuous period) · ca a la vegada (simultaneously) · it alla volta (in a continuous period) · fi kerrallaan (in a continuous period) · es a la vez (in a continuous period) · sk za sebou (in a continuous period) · cy fesul (simultaneously) · sv i taget (simultaneously) · sk spolu (simultaneously) · hu megszakítás nélkül (in a continuous period) · da ad gangen (in a continuous period) · pl naraz (simultaneously) · eo -ope (in a continuous period) · sk po sebe (in a continuous period) · eo samtempe (in a continuous period) · da ad gangen (simultaneously) · sk naraz (in a continuous period) · mr एका वेळीस (in a continuous period) · hu -asával (simultaneously) · hu egyvégtében (in a continuous period) · hu -osával (simultaneously) · fr à la fois (in a continuous period) · hu -ösével (simultaneously) · es a la vez (simultaneously) · it per volta (in a continuous period) · pt por vez (simultaneously) · hu -esével (simultaneously) · hu egyhuzamban (in a continuous period)