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stop-go

adj

Definitions

  1. Alternately active and inactive

    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.

  2. 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.

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