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What is another word for off-and-on?

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• adj.

  • all (adjective)

  • off-and-on.

• adv

  • Other relevant words: (adverb)

  • hardly,
  • variable,
  • sporadically,
  • on and off,
  • irregularly,
  • intermittent,
  • scarcely,
  • fluctuating,
  • very seldom,
  • not often,
  • sometimes,
  • at irregular intervals,
  • vacillating,
  • when the mood strikes,
  • off and on,
  • alternately,
  • infrequently.

• n.

  •
  • to and fro.

  • broken (noun)

  • broken.

  • now and again (noun)

  • now and then,
  • seldom,
  • occasionally.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • interrupted,
  • fitful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fitfully.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • sporadic,
  • alternate.

How to use «Off-and-on» in context?

Looking for a term to describe a relationship or a situation in which people communicate intermittently and sometimes never communicate at all? That’s off-and-on.

1       prep   If something is taken off something else or moves off it, it is no longer touching that thing.  
(=from)  
He took his feet off the desk…, I took the key for the room off a rack above her head…, Hugh wiped the rest of the blood off his face with his handkerchief.     
      Off is also an adverb., adv   ADV after v  
Lee broke off a small piece of orange and held it out to him…, His exhaust fell off six laps from the finish.     

2       prep   When you get off a bus, train, or plane, you come out of it or leave it after you have been travelling on it.,   (Antonym: on)
   Don’t try to get on or off a moving train!…, As he stepped off the aeroplane, he was shot dead.     
      Off is also an adverb., adv   ADV after v  
At the next stop the man got off too and introduced himself.     

3       prep   If you keep off a street or piece of land, you do not step on it or go there.  
Locking up men does nothing more than keep them off the streets…, The local police had warned visitors to keep off the beach at night.     
      Off is also an adverb., adv  
…a sign saying `Keep Off’.     

4       prep   If something is situated off a place such as a coast, room, or road, it is near to it or next to it, but not exactly in it.  
The boat was anchored off the northern coast of the peninsula…, Lily lives in a penthouse just off Park Avenue…     

5       adv   If you go off, you leave a place.  
ADV after v, be ADV, oft ADV -ing  
He was just about to drive off when the secretary came running out…, She gave a hurried wave and set off across the grass…, She was off again. Last year she had been to Kenya. This year it was Goa…, When his master’s off traveling, Caleb stays with Pierre’s parents.     

6       adv   When you take off clothing or jewellery that you are wearing, you remove it from your body.  
ADV after v  
He took off his spectacles and rubbed frantically at the lens…, He hastily stripped off his old uniform and began pulling on the new one.     

7       adv   If you have time off or a particular day off, you do not go to work or school, for example because you are ill or it is a day when you do not usually work.  
usu n ADV, also be ADV  
The rest of the men had the day off…, She was sacked for demanding Saturdays off…, I’m off tomorrow…, The average Swede was off sick 27 days last year.     
      Off is also a preposition., prep  
He could not get time off work to go on holiday.     

8       prep   If you keep off a subject, you deliberately avoid talking about it.  
Keep off the subject of politics…, Keep the conversation off linguistic matters.     

9       adv   If something such as an agreement or a sporting event is off, it is cancelled.  
be ADV, ADV after v     (Antonym: on)
   Until Pointon is completely happy, however, the deal’s off…, Greenpeace refused to call off the event.     

10       prep   If someone is off something harmful such as a drug, they have stopped taking or using it.  
She felt better and the psychiatrist took her off drug therapy…     

11       prep   If you are off something, you have stopped liking it.  
I’m off coffee at the moment…, Diarrhoea can make you feel weak, as well as putting you off your food.     

12       adv   When something such as a machine or electric light is off, it is not functioning or in use. When you switch it off, you stop it functioning.  
be ADV, ADV after v     (Antonym: on)
   As he pulled into the driveway, he saw her bedroom light was off…, We used sail power and turned the engine off to save our fuel…, The microphones had been switched off.     

13       prep   If there is money off something, its price is reduced by the amount specified.  
amount PREP n  
…Simons Leatherwear, 37 Old Christchurch Road. 20 per cent off all jackets this Saturday., …discounts offering thousands of pounds off the normal price of a car.     
      Off is also an adverb., adv   ADV after v, v-link ADV, amount ADV  
I’m prepared to knock five hundred pounds off but no more.     

14       adv   If something is a long way off, it is a long distance away from you.  
n/amount ADV  
(=away)  
Florida was a long way off…, Below you, though still 50 miles off, is the most treeless stretch of land imaginable.     

15       adv   If something is a long time off, it will not happen for a long time.  
n/amount ADV  
An end to the crisis seems a long way off…, The required technology is probably still two years off.     

16       prep   If you get something off someone, you obtain it from them.  
SPOKEN  
(=from)  
I don’t really get a lot of information, and if I do I get it off Mark…, `Telmex’ was bought off the government by a group of investors.     

17       adj   If food has gone off, it tastes and smells bad because it is no longer fresh enough to be eaten.  
  (mainly BRIT)   v-link ADJ  
(=bad)  
Don’t eat that! It’s mouldy. It’s gone off!     
in AM, usually use spoiled, bad     

18       prep   If you live off a particular kind of food, you eat it in order to live. If you live off a particular source of money, you use it to live.  
v PREP n  
(=on)  
Her husband’s memories are of living off roast chicken and drinking whisky…, Antony had been living off the sale of his own paintings.     

19       prep   If a machine runs off a particular kind of fuel or power, it uses that power in order to function.  
v PREP n  
The Auto Compact Disc Cleaner can run off batteries or mains.     

20    If something happens on and off, or off and on   , it happens occasionally, or only for part of a period of time, not in a regular or continuous way.      
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off and on             phrase   PHR after v, PHR with cl  
I was still working on and off as a waitress to support myself…, We lived together, off and on, for two years.     

1       adj   If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.  
usu v-link ADJ  
The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the UK, so they are not too badly off.     

2       adj   If you are badly off, you do not have much money.  
usu v-link ADJ  
It is outrageous that people doing well-paid jobs should moan about how badly off they are.     

1       n-count   A cut-off or a cut-off point is the level or limit at which you decide that something should stop happening.  
usu sing, oft N n  
The cut-off date for registering is yet to be announced…, On young girls it can look really great, but there is a definite age cut-off on this.     

2       n-count   The cut-offof a supply or service is the complete stopping of the supply or service.  
usu sing  
A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country’s economy…     

1       adj   If you describe a moment in time as far off, you mean that it is a long time from the present, either in the past or the future.  
(=distant)  
In those far off days it never entered anyone’s mind that she could be Prime Minister…, Agreement is even further off.     

2       adj   If you describe something as far off, you mean that it is a long distance from you or from a particular place.  
…stars in far-off galaxies.     
      Far off is also an adverb., adv   ADV after v  
The band was playing far off in their blue and yellow uniforms.     

1       n-var   In football, the kick-off is the time at which a particular game starts.  
  (BRIT)  
The kick-off is at 1.30.     

2       n-count   In American football, a kickoff is the kick that begins a play, for example at the beginning of a half or after a touchdown or field goal.  
  (AM)  

3       n-sing   The kick-off of an event or activity is its beginning.  
INFORMAL   People stood waiting for the kick-off of the parade.     

1       adj   If someone or something is off-balance, they can easily fall or be knocked over because they are not standing firmly.  
v n ADJ, v-link ADJ  
He tried to use his own weight to push his attacker off but he was off balance…     

2       adj   If someone is caught off-balance, they are extremely surprised or upset by a particular event or piece of news they are not expecting.  
usu v n ADJ  
Mullins knocked me off-balance with his abrupt change of subject…, The government was thrown off-balance by the attempted coup.     

1       adj   An off-Broadway theatre is located close to Broadway, the main theatre district in New York.  
ADJ n  

2       adj   An off-Broadway play is less commercial and often more unusual than those usually staged on Broadway.  
ADJ n  

1       adj   If something is off-centre, it is not exactly in the middle of a space or surface.  
usu v-link ADJ  
If the blocks are placed off-centre, they will fall down.     

2       adj   If you describe someone or something as off-centre, you mean that they are less conventional than other people or things.  
usu v-link ADJ  
(=unorthodox)  
Davies’s writing is far too off-centre to be commercial.     

1       adj   If you say that you are feeling off-colour, you mean that you are slightly ill.  
  (BRIT)   v-link ADJ  
(=out of sorts)  
For three weeks Maurice felt off-colour but did not have any dramatic symptoms.     

2       adj   If you say that someone’s performance is off-colour, you mean that they are not performing as well as they usually do.  
  (BRIT, JOURNALISM)  
Milan looked off-colour but eventually took the lead in the 82nd minute.     

1       adj   If a place is off limits to someone, they are not allowed to go there.  
usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ to n  
Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982…, Certain areas have been declared off limits to servicemen.     

2       adj   If you say that an activity or a substance is off limits for someone, you mean that they are not allowed to do it or have it.  
v-link ADJ, oft ADJ for n  
Fraternizing with the customers is off-limits…     

1       n-sing   The off season is the time of the year when not many people go on holiday and when things such as hotels and plane tickets are often cheaper.  
also no det, oft N n  
(=low season)     (Antonym: high season)
   It is possible to vacation at some of the more expensive resorts if you go in the off-season…, Although it was off-season, the hotel was fully occupied., …off-season prices.     
      Off season is also an adverb., adv   usu ADV with cl, also ADV after v  
Times become more flexible off-season, especially in the smaller provincial museums.     

2       n-sing   The off season is the time of the year when a particular sport is not played.  
oft N n     (Antonym: season)
   He has coached and played in Italy during the Australian off-season., …intensive off-season training.     
      Off season is also an adverb., adv   usu ADV with cl, also ADV after v  
To stay fit off season, I play tennis or football.     

1       adj   If you describe something as off-the-wall, you mean that it is unusual and rather strange but in an amusing or interesting way.  
INFORMAL   usu ADJ n  
…surreal off-the-wall humor.     

2       adj   If you say that a person, their ideas, or their ways of doing something are off-the-wall, you are critical of them because you think they are mad or very foolish.,   (disapproval)
   It can be done without following some absurd, off-the-wall investment strategy.     

1       n-count   You can refer to something as a one-off when it is made or happens only once.  
  (mainly BRIT)  
Our survey revealed that these allergies were mainly one-offs.     

2       adj   A one-off thing is made or happens only once.  
  (mainly BRIT)   ADJ n  
…one-off cash benefits.     

1       n-count   A playoff is an extra game which is played to decide the winner of a sports competition when two or more people have got the same score.  
Nick Faldo was beaten by Peter Baker in a play-off.     

2       n-count   You use playoffs to refer to a series of games between the winners of different leagues, to decide which teams will play for a championship.  
usu N in pl  
The winner will face the Oakland A’s in the playoffs this weekend.     

1       n-count   If you say that something that you bought was a rip-off, you mean that you were charged too much money or that it was of very poor quality.  
INFORMAL   If he thinks £5.40 a day for parking at Luton Airport is a rip-off, he should try Heathrow.     

2       n-count   If you say that something is a rip-offof something else, you mean that it is a copy of that thing and has no original features of its own.  
INFORMAL   oft N of n  
In a rip-off of the hit movie Green Card, Billy marries one of his students so he can stay in the country.     

1       n-count   A spin-off is an unexpected but useful or valuable result of an activity that was designed to achieve something else.  
usu with supp, oft N from/of n  
The company put out a report on commercial spin-offs from its research.     

2       n-count   A spin-off is a book, film, or television series that comes after and is related to a successful book, film, or television series.  

1       n-count   A turn-off is a road leading away from a major road or a motorway.  

2       n-count   Something that is a turn-off causes you to lose interest or sexual excitement.  
INFORMAL   usu sing  

1       n-count   Something such as a vehicle that is a write-off has been so badly damaged in an accident that it is not worth repairing.  
  (BRIT)  
The car was a write-off, but everyone escaped unharmed.     

2       n-count   A write-off is the decision by a company or government to accept that they will never recover a debt or an amount of money that has been spent on something.  
Mr James persuaded the banks to accept a large write-off of debt.     

3       n-sing   If you describe a plan or period of time as a write-off, you mean that it has been a failure and you have achieved nothing.  
INFORMAL   Today was really a bit of a write-off for me…