Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occasional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective prenominal discontinuous; not continuous. Opposite of
continuous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb not regularly
- adjective intermittently stopping and starting
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Examples
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Dylan's off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing.
Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011
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Dylan's off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing.
Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011
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I am a long time off-and-on F&S reader and just recently became a subscriber.
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Dylan's off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing.
Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011
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Under a plan debated off-and-on since the early 1990s, the various separate criminal investigators—from the procuracy, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service FSB, and other bodies—would be united in a single investigatory agency, analogous to the American FBI.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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I am a long time off-and-on F&S reader and just recently became a subscriber.
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Under a plan debated off-and-on since the early 1990s, the various separate criminal investigators—from the procuracy, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service FSB, and other bodies—would be united in a single investigatory agency, analogous to the American FBI.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The family has sought deals off-and-on to take advantage of the water rights for several years, says Mr. Cropsey.
Developers Bet Large on Big-Box Sites Joseph De Avila 2011
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I'm also, in my off-and-on way, reading "Freedom," and am 320 pages into it, and it's very good, and I can offer this latest, incremental review:
Baseball vs. literature Joel Achenbach 2010
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A Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Saturday showed Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts and off-and-on Republican front-runner, with an 11 percentage point lead over Gingrich, up from 8 points a day earlier.
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