stimulus

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Kagen said that while the Throns 'show of support for the stimulus is admirable, a lot more needs to happen to turn around sagging car sales, particularly among American automakers.

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  1. noun Something causing or regarded as causing a response.
  2. noun An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.
  3. noun Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive: "Works which were in themselves poor have often proved a stimulus to the imagination” (W.H. Auden).

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  • Kagen said that while the Throns 'show of support for the stimulus is admirable, a lot more needs to happen to turn around sagging car sales, particularly among American automakers. —  The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines
  • "Members of Congress will have no opportunity to scrutinize or challenge earmarks included in the omnibus, so I hope that the standard that President Obama has set for the stimulus is applied to the omnibus as well." —  Arizona Congress Watch
  • We don't know, either, how the money from the stimulus will be allocated, or what the rules for its use will be. —  Confessions of a Community College Dean
  • Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing "eternal" power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy. —  Latest Articles
  • Why bother? by then most business will have tanked, the stimulus will be a year too late. —  CTV News RSS Feed
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  1. Latin, goad.

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  1. = French stimulus, stimule = Spanish estímulo = Portuguese estimulo = Italian stimolo, stimulo, from Latin stimulus, a goad, a pointed stake, fig. a sting, pang, an incitement, spur, stimulus, from √ stig-, also in instigare, set on, incite, urge, = Greek στίζειν, pierce, prick, = Anglo-Saxon *stecan, pierce: see stick.
 

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