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US
/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
- VCs can help you jumpstart, sure, but raising 100 or 400 million dollars to skip all the steps on the way to bigness is rare indeed. July 2004
- But even a moderate discount is expected to provide a massive jumpstart to the efforts to bring the Internet to the classroom.
- Two decades later it was the State Quarter program that jumpstarted a moribund market. Aging Baby Boomers and Rare Gold Coin Prices : Coin Collecting News
- Has civilzation been jumpstarted time and again by aliens after world cataclismic events? SF Signal is Looking for Mind Meld Topics - What Do You Want To See?
- Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list. Alexa von Tobel: So You're Finished with Taxes...Now What?
- These unconstitutional preferments were supposed to be temporary expedients to jumpstart racial integration.
- But mom-and-pop retailers could also become a political vanguard, jumpstarting the embourgeoisement of the Chinese population. The Next Chinese Economy
- Yet Professor Ali Mazrui's argument that if Africa is to jumpstart its pan African integration then some countries which he calls pivotal or development states should serve as a magnet for their neighbours is still relevant. Up Station Mountain Club
- To increase their chances of success, the microbial payloads should contain a variety of organisms with various environmental tolerances, and hardy multicellular organisms such as rotifer eggs to jumpstart higher evolution. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Taking second overall in the Grand Prix and winning the U.S. title jumpstarted Cheever's season a year ago, as he went on to win World Cup silver twice and finish No. 3 overall in the world. SI.com
