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onetime

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From one + time.

  1. Alternative form of one-time (“former; past”).

    "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 […]?

    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.

  2. Alternative form of one-time (“occurring once”).

    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.

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