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ONE TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one time mean? 

ONE TIME (adverb)
  The adverb ONE TIME has 1 sense:

1. on one occasionplay

  Familiarity information: ONE TIME used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ONE TIME (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

On one occasion

Synonyms:

in one case; once; one time

Context example:

once I ran into her


 Context examples 


A reduced quantity of a therapeutic agent prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals.

(Low-Dose Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)

A Photostability study would be a one time study.

(Photostability Drug Study, Food and Drug Administration)

I had a blood test one time that seemed weird to my doctor and me—and not in a good way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Here's the cottage, taking one time with another, will produce say seventy pounds a year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Approximately 45 individual clinical trials are active at any one time within GOG.

(Gynecologic Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)

The amount of drug administered to a patient or test subject at one time or the total quantity administered. [AMA Manual of Style] (CDISC Glossary)

(Dose, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Specifies whether a device is intended to be used only one time.

(Device Single Use Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

The amount of medicine taken, or radiation given, at one time.

(Dose, NCI Dictionary)

A quantity of an agent (such as substance or energy) administered, taken, or absorbed at one time.

(Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

But all is now well over, quoth Harcomb, and no scath come of it, which is more than I had at one time hoped for.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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