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.

   1 more example

   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

   Synonyms: stop-start, fitful, patchy, broken, fitful, ragged, catchy, discontinuous

1. uncountableAn 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