kick-start
also kickstart
Word forms: kick-starts , kick-starting , kick-started
1. verb
To kick-start a process that has stopped working or progressing is to take a course of action that will quickly start it going again.
The President has chosen to kick-start the economy by slashing interest rates. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: stimulate, encourage, prompt, spur
Kick-start is also a noun.
The housing market needs a kick-start.
2. verb
If you kick-start a motorcycle, you press the lever that starts it with your foot.
He lifted the bike off its stand and kick-started it. [VERB noun]
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Collocations:
kick-start the economy
The call for unlocking based on age groups would not be the best route to kick-start the economy.
Times,Sunday Times
Industry chiefs said these would do little to kick-start the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
She keeps saying the phrase 'kick-start the economy'.
Times, Sunday Times
He believes that tax cuts are needed to kick-start the economy, and that these should be financed by deeper and faster reductions in public spending.
Times, Sunday Times
Only by spending money can we kick-start the economy.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 重振
Japanese: 弾みをつけて再開させる
- seemingly inexplicable
- seemingly infinite
- seemingly innocuous
- seemingly insatiable
- seemingly insignificant
- seemingly insurmountable
- seemingly interminable
- seemingly intractable
- seemingly invincible
- seemingly irreconcilable
- seemingly irrelevant
- seemingly limitless
- seemingly meaningless
- seemingly miraculous
- seemingly modest
- seemingly normal
- seemingly oblivious
- seemingly obvious
- seemingly ordinary
- seemingly perfect
- seemingly permanent
- seemingly pointless
- seemingly random
- seemingly simple
- seemingly solid