Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) by using a booster cable connected to the battery of another vehicle or by engaging the drive train while the vehicle is rolling downhill or being pushed.
- v. Informal To start or reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process): "struggled to jump-start his once front-running . . . presidential campaign” ( Susan Feeney).
- n. The act, process, or an instance of starting a motor vehicle by using a booster cable or suddenly releasing the clutch while the vehicle is being pushed.
- n. Informal The act or an instance of starting or setting in motion a stalled or sluggish system or process.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To start a motor vehicle by passing an electrical current from a charged battery to the discharged battery of the vehicle being started, by means of a booster cable connecting the two batteries.
- v. transitive, figuratively To reactivate or rejuvenate.
- n. The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The action or event of jump-starting. For motor vehicles, the jump-starting of an engine is also called a
jump .
WordNet 3.0
- v. start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- v. start or re-start vigorously
- n. starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car
Examples
“Putting words, or key parts of words, together to form new words, as with moonshine or daylight, crossroads or earthquake, but also linebacker, lemonade, and jump-start, comes naturally to speakers of English.”
“AvalonBay Communities Inc. will break ground Wednesday on a New Jersey apartment project that aims to jump-start the transformation of a shuttered airplane-engine factory into an urban hub.”
The Wall Street Journal: Stalled Wood-Ridge Hub Tries to Get on Track
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“I like to jump-start Bobby Darin with Looked a lot like Che Guevara/Drove a diesel van.”
“The productivity began with the stimulus package, which was far more than an injection of $787 billion in government spending to jump-start the ailing economy.”
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“Q: How long/far does one have to drive a car to recharge a dead battery after receiving a jump-start?”
“Last month, the U.S. Department of Transportation and Democratic Mayor Dave Bing abandoned a roughly $600 million plan to build a light-rail line along a key corridor that supporters had insisted would attract new residents and jump-start economic growth.”
The Wall Street Journal: Detroit to Reconsider Light-Rail Line
“Indeed, any time you need a jump-start it is a good idea to have your mechanic test the battery's condition and charge it fully.”
“A: The general rule is you should drive the car for 15 to 30 minutes after a jump-start to make sure the battery gets a decent charge.”
“Calpers officials saw these equity investments as an opportunity to reap big rewards while helping to jump-start a stalled California housing market at a time when prices were depressed.”
The Wall Street Journal: Calpers Downsizes Housing Portfolio
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jump-start’.
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Words or phrases with "jump" in them (or with the letters j-u-m-p, in that order).
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