Meaning of one-shot in English:

one-shot

Pronunciation /ˈwʌnʃɒt/

Translate one-shot into Spanish

adjective

1mainly North American informal Achieved with a single attempt or action.
- ‘there is no one-shot solution to the problem’
- ‘For conflicts like these there is no single, quick, one-shot solution, but only an open-ended, evolutionary outcome.’
- ‘The most obvious of the lot is the Instant Kill, which is a one-shot, all-or-nothing attempt to knock out your opponent.’
- ‘His one-shot feat was achieved in a friendly four-ball using a seven wood.’
- ‘Relativity doesn't just want to be a one-shot solution for companies trying to extricate themselves from ailing computer languages.’
- ‘What we're seeing here is another example proving that asking for one-shot solutions is asking too much.’
- ‘Paul, like the paper's other shutterbugs, took his photos with the Speed Graphic, a big, boxy one-shot camera produced by the Graflex Corporation of Rochester, New York.’
- ‘Financial documents show city officials have relied on one-shot revenue sources, such as the water sale, to balance the budget each year since 1995.’
- ‘In a one-shot game, it's not clear that Christie's won because of research; they might have won because of chance.’
- ‘Do you get the sense that that's just a one-shot wonder, or is it part of a new effort to strengthen the, let's say, moderate middle?’
- ‘And I think from a human point of view it also makes sense that it shouldn't be just a one-shot mission.’
- ‘So always remember that your proposed or recently implemented computer consulting technology solution isn't a one-shot deal.’
- ‘His counseling ranges from one-shot advice sessions to long-term relationships where, he says, ‘it's almost like being at work again.’’
- ‘The first thorny issue that must be solved is an easy and memory - efficient method of parsing up this data so that one can simply select the field they are looking for and obtain the data in a one-shot, one-kill fashion.’
- ‘Now, games against BCS teams are one-shot opportunities for mid-majors - find a scheme that confuses the opponent, then feed oft the emotion and motivation of the moment.’
- ‘However, one-shot payments are not automatic counter-cyclical payments like prior deficiency payments, current loan deficiency payments or marketing loan gains.’
- ‘Additionally, these types of software reinforce good ergonomics principles every day, in contrast to the one-shot training session or consultant whose message quickly fades.’
- ‘This behavior is desired by some applications, for example, Samba, where one-shot support mimics the behavior of the file change notification system on Microsoft Windows.’
- ‘Years ago, the proprietor developed a novel method to cast backyard satellite television dishes in a one-shot process that results in exceptionally smooth parabolic antennas.’
- ‘To the best of my knowledge no one has considered neo-Darwinian evolution to be a one-shot game, yet the book reads as if this was the predominant view and that the authors have stumbled onto something new.’
- ‘The torpedo gives the Akula a one-shot kill capability against any naval vessel short of an aircraft carrier due to its huge warhead.’
1. 1.1Done, produced, or occurring only once.
  ‘a one-shot deal’
  ‘You see, blowing up a plane is kind of a one-shot deal.’
  ‘Of course, that was more of a one-shot deal being at Indy for us, although we did run obviously one car in the IRL series last year.’
  ‘The course is a one-shot deal that lasts seven hours, $75, at Vanier College.’
  ‘All of their workshops are one-shot deals, prices range from around $40-75.’
  ‘The expensive Nisgaa deal is not a one-shot arrangement, either.’
  ‘To my dismay, the boys tell me the stint was just a one-shot deal and they won't be setting up any Yellow residencies.’
  ‘And when the movement, if, in fact, it has begun, and the indications are that it has, this is going to be, we're told, a sustained operation, not just a one-shot deal.’
  ‘‘We do not want this case to be a one-shot deal but the start of the immigration authorities allowing detainees to receive food,’ she said.’
  ‘Transgovernmental networks are not one-shot deals.’
  ‘Because these ameliorative representational arrangements are so controversial, they tend to get deployed in marginal areas or as one-shot deals.’
  ‘This is unique model fosters an amazing community and an openness as members are not there for a one-shot deal, but are ongoing members.’
  ‘I seldom give exams, because exams are such a one-shot deal, and because a lot of people have exam anxiety and underperform.’
  ‘The Camp Sizanani partnership is determined that what has been accomplished will not be a one-shot deal.’
  ‘If the kiss was a one-shot deal and you can forgive her, then do that.’
  ‘It started innocently, intended to be a one-shot deal and then, well, you know how that goes.’
  ‘It will be interesting to see whether this agreement is a one-shot deal, or a harbinger of more to come.’
  ‘This season there is a single-car one-shot qualifying system.’
  ‘One which happened almost as an accident was the one-shot story, ‘Children of Doom,’ which appeared in Charlton Premiere #2.’
  ‘The law doesn't apply to one-shot publications, such as books.’
  ‘What is disturbing about the rebates is not the rebates themselves, but the fact they're a one-shot.’