on-off

adjective

: used to turn something on and off

an on-off switch

: relating to something that is sometimes on and sometimes off

a switch set to a random on-off pattern

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The City of Milwaukee restarted the processing about 31,000 absentee ballots after an election observer brought to officials' attention that doors covering on-off switches on some of the machines that are used to tally those votes had not been properly closed, the city's top election official said. —

Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024 Pam, her character in Annie Hall, is a Rolling Stone writer whom Woody Allen’s Alvy Singer dates during one of the off periods of his on-off relationship with Annie. —

A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024 The Tony and Ziva on-off relationship formed a major multi-season arc in the earlier era of CBS’s long-running crime procedural NCIS. —

Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024 This was after Carpenter was involved in a love triangle with Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett and before her current on-off relationship with Barry Keoghan. —

Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for on-off