0 present participle of kick-start --
1 to make the engine of a motorcycle start by forcefully pushing down a metal bar with your foot --
2 to make something start to happen: --
Taxes were drastically cut in an attempt to kick-start the economy.
Once the activity has begun, the teacher is charged with kick-starting and monitoring discussion to facilitate learning.
The bike did not have an electric start; the kick-starting technique took some practice.
Rather, it will prompt them to clear out the dead wood, to modernise, to undertake those structural reforms that are the trigger for kick-starting the economy.
Governments need to solve the problem of these countries' debt through an act of strict justice, as a useful tool to cooperate in kick-starting their economies.
Simply passing legislation of a declarative or any other nature does not change hearts and minds, but it can play a part in accelerating or kick-starting change.
It is kick-starting the process of improvement that was long overdue, but ultimately improvement is delivered locally, not nationally, by front-line staff in front-line services.
What, therefore, we now need is political energy for kick-starting the engine that drives our efforts – efforts that are the basis of our work.
There is no point in kick-starting the housing market or kick-starting the economy by means of a consumer boom.
