stop-go

adj, noun — 2 senses

stop-go

adj

1

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.2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:

Derived terms: stop-go animation

stop-go

noun

1

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.2014, Max Schulze, Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945, page 277:

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