stop-go

English

Adjective

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

  1. Alternately active and inactive; intermittent.
    Alternative form: stop-and-go
    Synonyms: stop-start; fitful, patchy; see also Thesaurus:discontinuous
    We are suffering the consequences of three years of a stop-go economic policy.
    • 2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:
      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.

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Noun

stop-go (uncountable)

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

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