Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Nonce, short for "number used only once," is ...

You’d rather own a wug than a slithy tove—trust us. All this to say that the finer criteria for nonce words are debatable, and you could probably make an argument against the nonce-ness of any term in ...