nonstop

[adjective, adverb non-stop; noun non-stop]

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adjective

being without a single stop en route: a nonstop bus; a nonstop flight from New York to Paris.
happening, done, or held without a stop or pause or without offering relief or respite: The ambassador faced a nonstop schedule of meetings and interviews during her visit.

adverb

without a single stop en route.
Informal. without a pause or interruption or without respite; continually: My back ached nonstop for three days.

noun

a long-distance airline flight that makes no stops between the starting point and the destination.

Origin of nonstop

First recorded in 1900–05; non- + stop

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Related Words for nonstop

round-the-clock, constant, ceaseless, steady, incessant, unending, uninterrupted, interminable, relentless, unbroken, endless, unfaltering, unremitting

Examples from the Web for nonstop

Contemporary Examples of nonstop

You might work on the same groove for five hours nonstop, some three-bar thing over and over.
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January 1, 2015
Check prices at AA.com Other carriers also serve Madrid with nonstop flights.
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March 19, 2014
So what lies behind the curtain of official Washington at the highest levels of government in a time of nonstop war?
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January 20, 2014
“She was on Twitter nonstop, and a lot of what was coming back to her was very negative and critical,” said a family friend.
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July 9, 2013
And it would mean that many more of us would be subjected to three months of nonstop political ads.
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Michael Tomasky
November 6, 2012

Historical Examples of nonstop

Imagine a room where everyone shouted at the top of their lungs, nonstop, while setting off air horns.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow
Three hundred miles per hour on a constant, nonstop flight across the rolling land.
Consignment
Alan E. Nourse

British Dictionary definitions for nonstop

nonstop

adjective, adverb

done without pause or interruptiona nonstop flight

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