one at a time

1. 1.

   in succession

   “the prisoners came out one by one”

   Synonymsone by one

Questions about one at a time

What does one at a time mean?

one at a time means "in succession".

What is another word for one at a time?

Close synonyms include one by one. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is one at a time a common word?

one at a time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.