stop-start
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English
Adjective
stop-start (comparative more stop-start, superlative most stop-start)
- Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
- 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
- It was Van Persie's only opportunity during a stop-start match in which Theo Walcott, Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey squandered chances to open the scoring.
- 2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:
- Otherwise, we would not be talking about electrifying the main lines, as the work would have been long since done. Instead, we are now at the sixth stage of a stop (1960s) start (1990s East Coast) stop (1990s) start (2000s Great Western) stop (2010s) process that has gone on for more than half a century.
Synonyms
- fitful, patchy; see also Thesaurus:discontinuous
See also
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