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one-time (wntm)
adj.
1. or one·time (wntm)
a. Occurring or undertaken only once: a one-time winner in 1995.
b. Having been in the past; former: asked his one-time classmates for help.
2. Sports Relating to or being a shot made from a pass that is not stopped prior to shooting.
tr.v. one-timed, one-tim·ing, one-times Sports
To shoot (a ball or puck) directly from a pass.
one-timer n.
one-time
adj
(prenominal) at some time in the past; former
adv
Caribbean informal at once
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.one-time - belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
erstwhile, onetime, quondam, sometime, former, old
past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"
one-time
adjective former, previous, prior, sometime, late, erstwhile, quondam, ci-devant (French), ex- She is a one-time member of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Translations
one-time [ˈwʌntaɪm] ADJ → antiguo, ex
one-time prime minister → ex primer ministro/a m/f
one-time butler to Lord Yaxley → antiguo mayordomo m de Lord Yaxley
the one-time revolutionary → el otrora revolucionario
one-time [ˈwʌnˌtaɪm] adj → ex inv
one-time [ˈwʌnˌtaɪm] adj → ex inv


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Then the Sheriff arose and said: "I thank you, Robin Hood, one-time butcher, and you, Little John, one-time beggar, and you, Much, one-time cook, and all you good men who have entertained me in Sherwood so well.
Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context
She had eaten the meal that had been brought her by Mohammed Beyd's Negro slave--a meal of cassava cakes and a nondescript stew in which a new-killed monkey, a couple of squirrels and the remains of a zebra, slain the previous day, were impartially and unsavorily combined; but the one-time Baltimore belle had long since submerged in the stern battle for existence, an estheticism which formerly revolted at much slighter provocation.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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