0 A stop-go situation is one in which there are periods of development and activity quickly followed by periods without activity, especially in a country's economy:
The UK cannot afford another stop-go cycle of economic development.
1 used to describe a situation where an economy regularly has periods of fast growth, followed by periods of slow or no growth:
2 regular periods of fast growth, followed by periods of slow or no growth:
The pre-election boom had to be reined back in i960, and a period of economic 'stop-go' policies ensued.
I should like to address myself to a simple question: are we returning to a stop-go situation?
From the evidence of the past 10 years, it looks very much as if we are back in a stop-go situation.
Frankly, the stop-go attitude to funding is causing nothing less than chaos to small rural housing associations.
The housing market is in a state of stop-go.
To allow our industry to be destroyed because of short-term changes in the exchange rate or stop-go policies is absurd.
It cannot work with stop-go—and mostly there has been stop.
The oil allowed us to carry on the go part of the stop-go cycle to such an extent.
