EGAVE

nonstop

About 0.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Without stopping; without interruption or break.
    There's a nonstop flight to Mauritius, but I'm not sitting on the same plane for thirteen hours.
  2. adjective Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
  3. adverb Without stopping; without interruption or break
    He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.
  4. noun A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
  5. noun A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
  6. noun A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.

Similar words

continuous uninterrupted direct round-the-clock around-the-clock day-and-night nonstop flight non-stop unabated continuously

Often followed by

for flight from to flights service and about in

Word family

nonstops

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