Definition of "one-time" []

• Occurring or undertaken only once: a one-time winner in 1995. (adjective)
• Having been in the past; former: asked his one-time classmates for help. (adjective)
• Sports Relating to or being a shot made from a pass that is not stopped prior to shooting. (adjective)
• Sports To shoot (a ball or puck) directly from a pass. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He had given himself what he called a one-time waiver in the previous election, and was now going against his prior commitment not to extend his hold over both offices."
• "Henry has spent the last several years redeeming himself following a five-year stint in prison for armed robbery, which he describes as a one-time mistake that stemmed from a desperate and ill-conceived plan to gain money to help his family save their house in Washington, D.C."
• "Soon there appeared in Williamsburg a man named John Short, who was described as a one-time participant in the counterfeiting."