nonce

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.

   That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.

2. noun A nonce word.

   I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.

3. noun A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
4. adjective One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.
5. noun A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
6. noun A pedophile.
7. noun A police informer, one who betrays a criminal enterprise
8. noun A stupid or worthless person.

   Shut it, ya nonce!

Similar words

time being occasion instance cause obvention case fest occurrence circumstance function

Often followed by

the to words word and is in of that

Word family

nonces