Nonce
[nɒns] or [nɑns]
Definition
(n.) The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.
Editor: Miriam
Definition
n. (only in phrase 'for the nonce') the present time occasion.—Nonce-word a word specially coined like Carlyle's gigmanity.
Typist: Susan