| 释义 |
stop-go, a. and n.|stɒp gəʊ|
[f. stop v. + go v.]
A. adj.
1. Of signs or lights: indicating alternately to traffic that it should stop or that it should go.
1918Wells Fargo Messenger Feb. 94/3 The copper flashed us a smile as he gave his stop-go apparatus another twist. 1952M. Steen Phoenix Rising ii. 50 They were..held up..by ‘Stop’-‘Go’ signs. 1965Motor 17 July 1/2 The long queues of cars waiting at the wrongly timed stop-go lights.
2. Alternately stopping and going, or acting and not acting.
1960Times 10 Oct. 16/1 In their new ‘stop-go’ style they were infinitely the more dangerous. 1973‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Answer iii. 32 Their taxi made only a tedious stop-go progress. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 503/4 Would that English historical journals discussed, for example, the implications for future research of the stop-go policy of recruitment of graduates to history departments.
3. Econ. Of, pertaining to, or designating a policy of alternately restricting demand, in order to contain inflation, and expanding credit, in order to reduce unemployment.
The earlier designation of the policy was stop-and-go (see stop-and-go a. 3).
1962Daily Tel. 21 Feb. 10 It is precisely these ‘stop-go’ policies of successive Chancellors which have been a major cause of our export troubles. 1965Listener 3 June 817/2 The British Government then in office found its negotiating position undermined by gossip and arguments at home about the imminence of devaluation of the pound sterling as the only way out of the old stop-go circle. 1971Business Week 13 Nov. 146/3 Yet Ulman and Flanagan conclude that governments have a strong tendency to choose stop-go policies. 1975J. De Bres tr. Mandel's Late Capitalism xiv. 455 The ‘Stop-Go’ pattern of the British economy in the first post-war Tory era is the classical example of such a relatively autonomous credit cycle. 1979Dædalus Spring 47 In Sweden, special factors reduced the country's vulnerability to uncontrollable money wage increases, hence to disruptive policies of the stop-go variety.
B. n. Econ. A stop-go policy; the economic cycle resulting from this.
1964S. Brittan Treasury under Tories vii. 208 This was the event which turned the business community violently against ‘stop-go’ and made it look with a less jaundiced eye on national planning. 1966Listener 2 June 808/2 Does more inflation mean more difficulties with the balance of payments and more ‘stop-go’? 1972Accountant 23 Mar. 365 What evidence is there to convince management and industry that the new phase of expansion which the Chancellor's proposals should generate will not, as on so many previous occasions, culminate within some 18–24 months in a revival of ‘stop-go’ and balance of payments difficulties? 1976K. Joseph Monetarism is not Enough 10 We refused to believe that it was the drug which had caused the need for a stop, hence we still say ‘stop-go’, but it is the go which causes the stop, not vice⁓versa. |