nonstop
About 0.54 uses per million words.
Meaning
- 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.
- adjective Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
- adverb Without stopping; without interruption or break
He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.
- noun A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
- noun A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
- 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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