0 the activity of helping a business, programme, economy, etc. to develop by giving it money:
The government is awarding small, pump-priming grants to single mothers who are starting their own businesses.
1 the process of investing money in order to encourage the development of a business, economy, etc.:
2 used to describe the process in which money is invested in order to encourage the development of a business or economy:
The pump-priming (as he called it) of grant aid for the rabbit clearance societies over the previous sixteen years had achieved its end.
Thirdly, we must build up business confidence by tackling dereliction, by pump-priming investment and by improving local labour skills.
We should build up business confidence by tackling dereliction, and by pump-priming investment in infrastructure.
We must reintroduce building and refurbishment assistance, either as grants or as pump-priming loans to modernise and improve the infrastructure.
Its original purpose, which was to sell information books and to provide a limited pump-priming subsidy to publishers, was largely overtaken.
If one looks at the estates in the worst condition, it is unlikely that they will be refurbished without pump-priming investment.
I can announce today a further £1.5 million of pump-priming funding over the next 12 months.
He goes further by saying that, to start, we might have to do pump-priming.
