impetusim‧pe‧tus /ˈɪmpɪtəs/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] 
The report may provide further impetus for reform. The discovery gave fresh impetus to the research.2technical the force that makes an object start moving, or keeps it moving
WORD ORIGINimpetus
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin impetere ‘to attack’, from petere ‘to go to, look for’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Press criticism has been the main impetus behind the government reforms.
- The impetus for change in the industry was provided by a new management team.
- The Surgeon General's speech will give new impetus to the anti-smoking campaign.
- A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.
- During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals.
- Gathering research data has an impetus of its own and this part of the research procedure was carried through reasonably smoothly.
- Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.
- She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.
- The same consideration applies to the initial impetus for your story.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that makes something else happen
· Doctors cannot find a cure for the illness until they have identified the cause.cause of · Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the accident.root cause (=basic cause) · The root cause of the current energy crisis is that we simply use too much energy.
one of several causes of a situation or condition: · The price of insurance depends on several factors, including the age of the car.factor in: · His girlfriend lives in London and I'm sure that was a factor in his decision to move there.key factor (=very important factor): · Money will be the key factor when we decide to buy a new house.deciding/determining factor (=the thing that finally makes something happen): · Race should never be a deciding factor in a hiring decision.
the thing or one of the things that makes you decide to do something or makes something happen: · "Why are you helping her?" "She asked me to. That's the only reason."· The main reason she quit is that she was not being paid enough.reason for/behind: · Can anyone explain the reason for the delay?· There were two reasons behind the company's failure.reason why/(that): · The reason why the economy is growing more slowly is a lack of workers.reason to do something: · There's no reason to doubt what she says.
the first causes from which a situation, condition etc has developed: origins of: · The origins of the crisis were very complex.· Other cultures' beliefs about the origins of disease often differ from our own.have origins in: · Many of our attitudes to the issue of race have their origins in the colonialism of days gone by.
the main or most important cause of a situation or condition: root of: · The roots of the wars in the Balkans go back hundreds of years.get to the root of something (=discover the most important cause): · We need to get to the root of the problem.
an event, action, or situation that helps a process to develop more quickly: · The appointment of a new director gave the project immediate stimulus.stimulus to: · The surge in new housing construction ought to provide a stimulus to the economy.
an event, action, or situation that helps something to develop more quickly: impetus for/behind: · The impetus for change in the industry was provided by a new management team.· Press criticism has been the main impetus behind the government reforms.give impetus to something: · The Surgeon General's speech will give new impetus to the anti-smoking campaign.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The report may provide further impetus for reform. The discovery gave fresh impetus to the research.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1an influence that makes something happen or makes it happen more quicklyimpetus for The report may provide further impetus for reform. The discovery gave fresh impetus to the research.· This view received added impetus from the proposal to construct the Trans-Siberian Railway.
· New products are introduced every quarter to give the sales force fresh impetus.· Fresh legs do not always bring fresh impetus, unless they belong to Joe Worsley or Trevor Woodman.· Mozart had brought fresh impetus to a time-worn formula thanks to his recent exposure to exciting new developments in Paris.· In Kwangju a protester received a near-fatal beating by police in an incident which served to give fresh impetus to the protests.
· The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus.· While responses to the Kirklees Report were being discussed, a further incident gave impetus to more precise anti-racist policies.· So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus.· The popularity of rap and hip-hop with young white provided further impetus and black directors were suddenly in demand.· All of the capacities could have evolved independently, but then obtained further impetus for change from the gradual emergence of language.
· The same consideration applies to the initial impetus for your story.· Mann's children may provide the initial impetus for her practice, but the conceptual agenda lies beyond them.· This means you are not given the same level of initial impetus.· The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946.· The enquiry's initial impetus was being lost and now they were all groping.
· A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.· But the major inflationary impetus was provided by the conjunction of two factors.· This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes.
· Researching the area to be covered in advance puts a new impetus back into flying.· For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.· But it has been given a new impetus, even an urgency, by the advent of modern computer technology.· Each wild rumour adds new impetus to the exodus.· In recent years, they have given a new impetus to the forecasting of natural disasters.· The coming of war in 1914 quickly gave new impetus to the hitherto rather limited and amateurish propaganda efforts of governments.· In the middle of the recession, the economy needs new impetus not a tax cut.
VERB· Each wild rumour adds new impetus to the exodus.· Their negative reaction was added impetus.· Technological change, especially in military weapons, gave added impetus to the new expansionism.
· In many ways the most powerful impetus to greater concentrations came from the state.· The impetus must come from the top.· During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals.· Where, then, does the impetus for creativity come from?· The impetus will have to come from older people themselves.· The impetus came from the unions.· The impetus for these practices came from the need to remunerate the rapidly expanding number of clerks in royal service.· But a lot of the impetus has come from the cash Thorn paid when he sold the record company.
· Government policy does not believe transport planning gives road haulage impetus!· But impulses can start anywhere, given enough impetus.· Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.· They would drop almost into range, and then make use of the slope to give impetus to their charge.· At all events, it was this group of the dispossessed that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution.· The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning.
· On New Year's Day they briefly topped the division, but since then have lost players and impetus.· Gorbad's wound causes him to become weaker and weaker, until the Waaagh gradually loses impetus.
· The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus.· This laser provided an early impetus for studies of instabilities by tending to produce noisy, spiked output even under quasi-steady excitation.· Mann's children may provide the initial impetus for her practice, but the conceptual agenda lies beyond them.· This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes.· Promoting enterprise Government needs to provide an immediate impetus to get the economy moving.· That in turn would hopefully provide an impetus for closer political union.· This type of study provided the impetus to investigation of the role of angioplasty for residual thrombosis following thrombolytic therapy.· Yesterday it was Chris Evert, normally her rival, who provided the impetus.
· The process of proletarianisation has also received some impetus from the spread of agribusiness in the region.· The area where the Industrial Revolution had received its greatest impetus was soon one of high unemployment.
The report may provide further impetus for reform. The discovery gave fresh impetus to the research.2technical the force that makes an object start moving, or keeps it moving