Nonce

for the nonce, i. e. for the present time.

n.

1.

The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; - chiefly used in the phrase

Nonce word

"a word apparently employed only for the nonce". - Murray (New English Dict.).

Noun

1.

nonce - the present occasion; "for the nonce" Synonyms: time being

contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, historical present, modernity, newness, now, nowadays, nowness, our times, present, present tense, presentness, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this moment, this point, this stage, today