at one stroke prepositional phrase2 •With a single blow, effort, or act.I should be ready to do the job without being paid for it, though I don't say it is not sweeter to get both gold and revenge at one stroke. — 1898 •(figurative) At once, immediately; in an instant.. . . with the wind of ruin in his hair, Soul sprang full-statured from the broken flesh, And at one stroke he lived the whole of life. — 1909