Definition of "off-and-on" [off-and-on]

• On different tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land. (adverb)
• Discontinuous; not continuous. Opposite of <ant>continuous</ant>. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The family has sought deals off-and-on to take advantage of the water rights for several years, says Mr. Cropsey."
• "Under a plan debated off-and-on since the early 1990s, the various separate criminal investigators—from the procuracy, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service FSB, and other bodies—would be united in a single investigatory agency, analogous to the American FBI."
• "I'm also, in my off-and-on way, reading "Freedom," and am 320 pages into it, and it's very good, and I can offer this latest, incremental review:"