What is "one-time"

Usage examples of "one-time".

Dalip Amrit, the tactful one-time schoolmaster from Normork who was his private secretary, and bustling, hyperefficient Singobinda Mukund, the master of the household, a ruddy-faced Ni-moyan, and Countess Auranga of Bibiroon, who served as his official hostess in the absence of any consort.

This one-time bed of the Paleozoic sea between Archaean shores, raised in time above the ocean and enriched of the mountains that through millions of years were gradually to be worn down by the natural forces of the valley, and finally, as we have seen, opened by the French as a newcreated world to be peopled by the old world, then overflowing its brim, became all of it in the space of a single lifetime the property of a few million human beings, their heirs, and assigns forever.

The perfect randomness of the one-time system nullifies any horizontal, or lengthwise, cohesion, as in coherent running key or autokey, and its one-time nature bars any vertical assembly in Kasiski or Kerckhoffs columns, as in keys repeated in a single message or among several messages.

Will Skeat himself, his one-time com- mander and friend, was stranded in Caen, and Thomas had no knowledge whether Will still lived or, if he did, whether he could speak or understand or even walk.

The one-time mining king, the most redoubtable poker player of Calaveras County, permitted himself a momentary twinkle of his eyes.

The Riverwalk had begun life as a one-time WPA project, according to an old travel guide she had found in the nightstand at La Casita, then been pulled back from the edge of ruin in the early sixties.

But the cryptanalyst has no way of sorting them out because the key in a one-time system neither repeats, nor recurs, nor makes sense, nor erects internal frameworks.

Six minutes in, he dug out a cross corner dump-in by defenseman Alfie Shields and threw it to van Dorn in the high slot for a one-timer.

Now why would his granddam replace Lady Anamara and his mother with this one-time trollop as her guardian?

One-time racketeer - owner of the Club Janeiro - a man wanted for murder!

The information we develop from this one-time inventory will be used to compute UIPS taxes while the depot and transports are in Plutonian jurisdiction.

The police had long been searching for Socks Mallory, one-time racketeer, who was now known to be a murderer.

Lake Temescal, not far from the one-time city of Oakland, that I came upon the first live human beings.

Many one-time activists have forsaken politics entirely and turned to drugs.

Herrelko, a burly one-time coal miner who worked for Canine as his director of communications security, the codemaking side of the business.