stop-go

English

Alternative forms

• stop-and-go

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.

   • 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.

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.

See also

• stop-go animation
• stop-start

Anagrams

• pogost