stop-start
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.24 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
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."
- "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."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more stop-start (comparative)
most stop-start (superlative)