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/ˈdʒəmpˌstɑɹt/
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VERB
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start or re-start vigorously
The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process - start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
NOUN
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starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car
my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor
How To Use jumpstart In A Sentence
- Among the projects that will be jumpstarted with this new funding are the Midtown Tunnel tube in Norfolk, the extension of HOV/HOT Lanes on I95/395 and the widening of I-66 in Northern Virginia, work on the Coalfields Expressway in Southwest Virginia, and the widening and improving of multiple sections of Route 58 in southern and western Virginia. UPDATED: Key Democratic panel approves McDonnell's transportation plan
- NEW YORK (CNNMoney. com) - With rising unemployment stymying the president's economic revival plans, the Obama administration is huddling with business leaders, academics and other experts Thursday to find a way to jumpstart hiring. White House summit seeks ideas on creating jobs
- Jay Thompson is an old friend and an amazing poet and a bit of a songwriter that kind of jumpstarted the project, we just wrote a bunch of songs together and one of them, this song, Three Imaginary Girls - Seattle's sparkly indie-pop press
- The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process
- This package is the first crucial step in a concerted effort to create and save 3 to 4 million jobs, jumpstart our economy, and begin the process of transforming it for the 21st century with $275 billion in economic recovery tax cuts and $550 billion in thoughtful and carefully targeted priority investments with unprecedented accountability measures built in. ... NASA Watch: January 2009 Archives
- Indeed, many see the need for large-scale hydrogen production as a way to jumpstart the moribund nuclear industry.
- Last year, I was too bullish on the economy, convinced that Terror War spending would cause enough increase in aggregate demand to jumpstart us out of the doldrums.
- my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor
- "People think I'm just a slut having sex on screen but I didn't do it simply to jumpstart my career," she adds in the Express.
- Think of it as football's version of quantitative easing: an injection of cash jumpstarting a recirculation of money. Times, Sunday Times
