on and off

1. 1.

   not regularly

   “they phone each other off and on”

   Synonymsoff and on

Questions about on and off

What does on and off mean?

on and off means "not regularly".

What is another word for on and off?

Close synonyms include off and on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is on and off a common word?

on and off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.