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stop-go en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Alternately active and inactive; intermittent.
    • Scottish rail suppliers have told the Government that they can only reach their target of employing 500 apprentices if they are given a clear pipeline of work, rather than having to endure the current stop-go programme. 2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:
    • We are suffering the consequences of three years of a stop-go economic policy.

Forms

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more stop-go Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most stop-go Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

stop-go animation

Relateds

stop-and-go

Synonyms

intermissive · catchy · stop-start · fitful · patchy · intermittent · spasmodic · ragged · discontinuous · patchy · stop-start · fitful · broken

stop-go en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An economic policy of this kind.
    • […] the concern with increasing economic growth led to charges that stop-go was inhibiting investment and hence slowing the expansion of the economy. 2014, Max Schulze, Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945, page 277: