Definition of Jumpstart

1. Noun. 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"

Exact synonyms: Jump-start
Generic synonyms: Action

2. Verb. Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery. "These cars won't jumpstart "
Exact synonyms: Jump, Jump-start
Generic synonyms: Start, Start Up

3. Verb. Start or re-start vigorously. ; "The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process"
Exact synonyms: Jump-start
Generic synonyms: Begin, Commence, Lead Off, Start

Definition of Jumpstart

1. Noun. (alternative form of jump-start) ¹

2. Verb. (alternative form of jump-start) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumpstart

jumpoffs
jumpout
jumpouts
jumps
jumps down someone's throat
jumps one's bones
jumps rope
jumps someone's bones
jumps the gun
jumps the shark
jumpseat
jumpseats
jumpseed
jumpseeds
jumpstart (current term)
jumpstarted
jumpstarter
jumpstarters
jumpstarting
jumpstarts
jumpstation
jumpstations
jumpstyle
jumpsuit
jumpsuited
jumpsuits
jumpup
jumpups
jumpy

Literary usage of Jumpstart

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Improving Financial Literacy: Analysis of Issues And Policies by SourceOECD (Online service) (2005)
"... APPENDIX A.3 United States: Selected Questions from the JumpStart Financial Literacy ... JumpStart ..."

2. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"The goal of the Growth Points strategy was to jumpstart rural industries to achieve new industrial growth and to decentralise industry (AM ..."

3. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing And Employing America for a by Cosepup, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (2007)
""Broadcast to Broadband: Completing the Digital Television Transition Can jumpstart Affordable Wireless Broadband." US Senate Testimony, July 12, 2005. ..."

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