one-off event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofone-offandevent
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one-off
adjective
uk/ˌwʌnˈɒf/us/ˌwʌnˈɑːf/
happening ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofone-offandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The coining of the term 'natural hazard' within the social/environmental sciences has likewise refocused attention from the peculiar orone-offeventto the normative condition which 'disaster' ruptures.
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The chief executive's statement included in the annual report for 1990 explains that the sale of bulk whisky stocks in 1989 was aone-offevent.
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It was because it was aone-offevent, and not part of a timetabled sequence or programme leading to complete and verifiable decommissioning.
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We must, however, remember that it is aone-offevent; next year there will not be this £1,200 million windfall.
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I am convinced that it will strengthen the process: cultural dialogue as a process, rather than as aone-offevent.
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Discussing mass regularisations, the report argues that regularisation should remain aone-offevent.
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I also agree with the comment made earlier that this should be seen as part of a process and not just aone-offevent.
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For example, an organisation may decide, as aone-offevent, to take a site to foster good relationships.
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I do not accept that this will simply be aone-offevent.
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I do not think that this will be something which is aone-offevent.
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At that stage we felt that aone-offeventwas appropriate.
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Compulsory purchase, on the other hand, is aone-offevent.
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The first of these was that the extension should be aone-offevent, effective only until the end of the next year.
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That deficit has not come out of the blue and is not aone-offevent.
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It is not merely a problem of aone-offeventper year but is something on which the market and the press live.
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For aone-offeventthat was not so important.
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We know that domestic violence is rarely aone-offevent.
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The priorities—housing, inner city decay, rehabilitation, restoration and general environmental improvement—are higher than aone-offeventsuch as the games.
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As it stands, it is aone-offevent, until the general has a programme that will lead to total decommissioning.
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I hope that we can treat it as aone-offevent.
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