"stop-start" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more stop-start",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most stop-start",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "stop-start (comparative more stop-start, superlative most stop-start)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 21, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Intermittent",
          "intermittent"
        ],
        [
          "start",
          "start"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "regularity",
          "regularity"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "stop-go"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fitful"
        },
        {
          "word": "patchy"
        },
        {
          "word": "discontinuous"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stop-start"
}

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    {
      "form": "more stop-start",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most stop-start",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "stop-go"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 21, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity."
      ],
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          "start",
          "start"
        ],
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          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
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          "regularity",
          "regularity"
        ]
      ]
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    },
    {
      "word": "patchy"
    },
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      "word": "discontinuous"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stop-start"
}