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Answer for the clue "For a single use ", 8 letters:
one-shot
Word definitions for one-shot in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a one-shot/two-goal/three point etc lead (= a lead of a specific amount ) ▪ Goals by Keane and Lennon gave Tottenham a two-goal lead. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As with non-co-operative playing of the one-shot game, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the comic book publishing industry, a one-shot is a comic book published as a single, standalone issue, with a self-contained story, and not as part of an ongoing series or miniseries. In the television industry, one-shots sometimes serve as a pilot ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1907, "achieved in a single attempt" (original reference is to golf), from one + shot (n.). Meaning "happening or of use only once" is from 1937.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Needing only a single attempt to become effective. 2 unique. n. 1 (context television English) A television programme that is not part of a series. 2 (context film English) A cinematographic shot of a person talking to camera; a talking head. 3 (context ...
Usage examples of one-shot.
Then he checked his first-aid kit for bandage roll, tourniquet, sterile gauze compress, one-shot antirabies serum, boric acid solution.
They were probably also what had convinced Old Conc to gamble his one-way, one-shot flight on this particular extrasolar system.
Unarmed except for his knifeless, one-shot air gun, Banzarro dived outside with the others.
The telomere tabs were one-shot things, right, most people got them in their early twenties.
Then he checked his first-aid kit for bandage roll, tourniquet, sterile gauze compress, one-shot antirabies serum, boric acid solution.
But all one-shot changes in either direction are only devices to start the story, which then usually proceeds in a completely timebound fashion.
All the circuitry was breadboarded, lashed together, a complicated one-shot.
All the circuitry was breadboarded, lashed together, a complicated one-shot.
This time, with the reduced opportunities out in the burbs, I hadn't rushed at all, and I hadn't found anything, either, not even the occasional one-shot.
Instead of gigantic, costly, ultra-high-tech, one-shot efforts like NASA's Hubble Telescope (crippled by bad optics) or NASA's Galileo (currently crippled by a flaw in its communications antenna) these micro-rovers are cheap, and legion, and everywhere.
The original idea had been to lash together a one-shot coalition and demoralize the local money/politics establishment by winning a major election before the enemy knew what was happening.
He ripped the photograph out of the one-shot camera where it had been lying all night, and looked at it for the first time.
This time the diverted energy was channeled into one-shot X-ray lasers, directing seventy percent of the explosion’s power into a single slender beam of ultrahard radiation.