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单词 stop-go
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Definition of stop-go in English:

stop-go

adjective
  • 1Alternately stopping and starting.

    stop-go driving
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't know why I might have expected it to be heavier, but the car is commendably easy to drive even in stop-go traffic where an automatic might have been more appropriate.
    • This is the familiar stop-go traffic wave; where traffic stops dead for something like five seconds, then takes off again.
    • A stop-go commitment to the strategic resourcing of our educational provision is the worst possible option.
    • But in cities, emissions from stop-go traffic can be very different.
    • So far, there is no news on a proper automatic transmission, ideal for heavy-city traffic, as the selespeed can be too jerky in stop-go traffic.
    • A Warrenpoint man has condemned as ‘madness’ a decision to switch traffic management from free-flowing roundabouts to stop-go traffic lights in Newry city.
    • And then it's the traditional stop-go traffic jam, as the person at the head of the slip spends a few minutes rinsing down their boat before moving on.
    • The play's inherent contradictions are also not helped by the author's stop-go direction.
    1. 1.1British Relating to the alternate restriction and stimulation of economic demand by a government.
      stop-go policies
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is despite the fact that most of the things they have asked of government in the past have now been delivered: low inflation, fiscal prudence and an end to stop-go policies.
      • In order to put the brakes on the stop-go housing cycle, it has been looking into ways to encourage mortgage borrowers to borrow on long-term fixed rates.
      • Furthermore, because of the lag between identifying a downturn and taking action, often the fiscal boost arrived just as the economy was turning up, thus exacerbating the stop-go cycle rather than stabilising output.
      • Because high inflation bred instability - leading to stop-go policies of easy and tight credit - its demise implies fewer and milder recessions.
      • But the time for dithering and half-hearted stop-go reflation is over, particularly given the perilous state of a global economy that still shows no sign of imminent recovery.
      • What we had to do was to get us out of the stop-go, boom-bust cycle that had dominated our economy for 40 or 50 years.
      • We have an economy built on stability and not stop-go, and there is an opportunity for investment in public services.
      • ‘Most stop-go problems that Britain has suffered in the last 50 years have been led or influenced by the housing market,’ he said.
      • Too often in the past, the stop-go nature of budgetary arithmetic has postponed necessary public investment.
      • And no longer the stop-go economy, Britain is now enjoying the longest period of sustained economic growth for 200 years.
      • Has anybody been asked to account for these stop-go policies in relation to investment in residential accommodation?
      • Still, the bank has done much to move the economy from stop-go to steady cruising speed.
      • Not surprisingly, the economy moved in a stop-go fashion, and households felt uncertain about their future in the jobless recovery.
      • Even the Chancellor is now pinning the blame for Britain's stop-go macroeconomic problems of the past on the foibles of Britain's property market.
 
 
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