autostop

1. uncountableA coupon-based system of hitchhiking that operated in communist Poland from the 1950s until the 1990s.

   Youth organizations have given autostop activity their stamp of approval.

   1960, Youth and Freedom - Volume 3, page 11

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   Autostop members have an advantage over other hitchhikers, because drivers of state cars are allowed to pick up only hitchhikers who display the blue rule book, and most of the cars belong to the state.

   1971, Marc Francis Roddin, Notes on a social history of hitchhiking, page 34

   Proponents of the system pronounced it a success, especially among the student youth. "The working class earns money and it can travel on buses or trains or airplanes, but students are the most happy, energetic people, and autostop is convenient for them," insisted one supporter in 1966.

   2013, Diane P. Koenker, Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream, →ISBN, page 238

plural autostops

1. An automatic stopping mechanism or system.

   The autostop beams would detect people ahead and apply the brakes.

   2016, RJ Bailey, Safe From Harm, →ISBN

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   The newest Prager shell features single handed immersion biometry, a Luer fitting to facilitate tubing changes, an autostop for exact manufacturer specified probe depth, and six centering guides to ensure perpendicularity.

   2004, H. John Shammas, Intraocular Lens Power Calculations, →ISBN, page 95

   Or you can utilize the autostop features of your trading software to help lock in most of the profit (onehalf to twothirds) of the current potential profit for the move.

   2012, Hima Reddy, The Trading Methodologies of W.D. Gann, →ISBN

   This is a really interesting option of Tshark since it allows us to specify an autostop condition, thanks to which we will not have to be present to manually stop a capture.

   2013, Borja Merino, Instant Traffic Analysis with Tshark How-to, →ISBN

present singular third person autostops · participle present autostopping · participle past autostopped · past autostopped

1. rareTo stop automatically.