Lexic.us

Definition of Jumpstart

1. Verb. Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery. "These cars won't jumpstart "

2. 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"

3. Verb. Start or re-start vigorously. "The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process"

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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