kick-start

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  1. transitive verb To start by using a kick starter: He kick-started the motorcycle and took off.
  2. transitive verb Informal To start or reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process): kick-start the economy with a large construction project.

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  • Second, action to kick-start lending so that families and businesses can borrow again. —  The Nation - Breaking News
  • The single "In This City," which has advanced to No. 35 on Billboard's Hot Modern Rock chart in its third week on the tally, may be the kick-start Iglu & Hartly need.
  • Like the overall spending proposal, the tax cuts would be designed to put cash in people's pockets over the next two years and kick-start the economy. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • The central bank wrote a new chapter in monetary history last month when it announced it would buy 75 billion pounds of assets with newly-created money in a bid to kick-start economic growth. —  Reuters: Top News
  • Communities Agency hopefully priming the market to kick-start building on abandoned and partly completed sites - provides one quick way to get the economy moving again. —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
 

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