Stop-start

Quick meaning: Stop-start is an adjective meaning Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.

Meaning

Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.

Example Sentences

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.

These strategies also need plans which are then developed for delivery in an efficient manner, unlike the shop-start stuff we have lived with for far too long.

Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.

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 for stop-start

Depending on context, synonyms include stop-go, stop-and-go, fitful, patchy, broken, ragged.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recurrent, nonstop, out-and-back, recidivous, endocycling, interspawning.

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