two-speed

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

Example Sentences

“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.

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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.

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The two-speed U.S. economy is back, as low-income Americans lose their gains.

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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".

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"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.

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