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• n  starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car
• v  start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
• v  start or re-start vigorously

• It won't jump-start consumer lending at least not in the foreseeable future if the lesson of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's experience is anything to go by.
• To jump-start the economy, Obama needs to spread around hundreds of billions of dollars, and he'd be wise to start with the currently underfunded efforts to restore the Everglades .
• Greer postulates that Anne and William designed her pregnancy to jump-start the complicated marriage negotiations between their families.

• jumpstart
• jump

News & Articles

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• Huey P. Long Bridge expansion opens 9,000 acres to new development, new name
  The widened bridge could jump-start the Avondale area much in the same way the Crescent City Connection did for Algiers, Gretna and Terrytown in the late 1950s and 1980s.
  June 15, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Intensive entrepreneurship program coming to Jackson this fall
  An intensive entrepreneurship program is coming to Jackson this fall to help jump-start aspiring entrepreneurs and to encourage Wyoming’s economic growth and diversification.
  June 15, 2013 - Casper Star-Tribune
• Billionaire Stewart Rahr's $10 Million Gift Is Largest In Make A Wish History
  Pharma billionaire Stewart Rahr will donate $10 million to Make A Wish Metro New York to jump-start the organization's goal of fulfilling 10,000 wishes over the next 10 years, he announced at its 30th anniversary gala. The Metro New York chapter of the organization has fulfilled 10,000 wishes -- granting children with life-threatening medical conditions elaborate trips or encounters with ...
  June 14, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Lindsey Graham in Reuters South Africa
  It will be a very comprehensive approach to jump-start the economy, by allowing capital to be formed easier in America by lowering taxes,Graham said on CBS' "Face the Nation."