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onetime en · ADJ

Etymology

From one + time.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of one-time (“former; past”).
    alt of one-time
    • "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 […]? 1891, Howard Pyle, chapter 19, in Men of Iron:
    • President Donald Trump has revoked the security detail assigned to his former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a person familiar with the matter confirmed Wednesday, adding to the growing list of officials who have faced retribution from their onetime boss. 2025 February 5, Kaitlan Collins, “Trump revokes Esper’s security detail, continuing his retribution against former officials”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025:
    • 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. 2004, The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 4
    • A G.C. line parcels train, headed by Class B1 4-6-0 No. 61163, approaches Chesterfield on July 29, 1961 past the remains of the bridge carrying the onetime G.C. line to Chesterfield Market Place. 1962 June, “Main line in the shadows—the Great Central”, in Modern Railways, page 370, photo caption:
    • Francisco Pignatari, a wealthy Brazilian industrialist and onetime international playboy, died today in a São Paulo hospital. 1977 October 28, “Francisco Pignatari, 61, Onetime Brazilian Playboy Prospered as Industrialist”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2024:
  2. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of one-time (“occurring once”).
    alt of one-time
    • The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase) […] 2004, The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 6
    • 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. 1896, Freeman Otis Willey, The Laborer and the Capitalist:
    • One of the key characteristics of the proposed onetime password protocol is that attacker cannot use password because it changes every time. 2005, Osvaldo Gervasi et al., editors, Computational Science And Its Applications, Springer, →ISBN, page 526: