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stop-go

stop-go adjective: alternately active and inactive; intermittent.

Adjective

stop-go (comparative more stop-go, superlative most stop-go)

  1. Alternately active and inactive; intermittent.
    • We are suffering the consequences of three years of a stop-go economic policy.
    • 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

Noun

stop-go (uncountable)

  1. 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

Synonyms of stop-go

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Forms of stop-go

comparativemore stop-go
superlativemost stop-go

Words formed from stop-go

Phrases with stop-go

Questions about stop-go

What does stop-go mean?
Stop-go means alternately active and inactive; intermittent.
What part of speech is stop-go?
Stop-go can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near stop-go in the dictionary

  1. stop-and-searches
  2. stop-gap
  3. stop-gapped
  4. stop-gapping
  5. stop-gaps
  6. stop-go
  7. stop-go animation
  8. stop-go sign
  9. stop-go signs
  10. stop-loss
  11. stop-loss order

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