two-speed

British  

adjective

1. (of a transmission system) having two settings

2. (of an economic system) allowing one sector to grow at a faster rate than another

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Example Sentences

Economists refer to the divide among consumers as the “K-shaped,” “two-speed” or “bifurcated” economy.

From MarketWatch

“We really are in a two-speed economy,” meaning lower-income people are struggling to pay for essentials such as food and housing while higher-income people are doing OK, Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said recently.

From MarketWatch

In an interview with MarketWatch in late July, Rieder described the U.S. as a “two-speed economy,” even as he saw it as “resilient” in aggregate.

From MarketWatch

Ms Sengupta, an associate professor at Mumbai-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, told the BBC that the ongoing crisis was borne out by the fact that India's economy was operating on a "two-speed trajectory", driven by diverging performances in its "old economy and new economy".

From BBC

"We challenge the idea that a tumour is a 'two-speed' entity with rapidly dividing cells on the surface and slower activity in the core. Instead, we show they are uniformly growing masses, where every region is equally active and has the potential to harbour aggressive mutations," says Dr. Donate Weghorn, co-corresponding author of the study and researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona.

From Science Daily