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: --
It is for the specific purpose of pump-priming improvement for sale schemes.
It was not envisaged that this essentially pump-priming support would be extended indefinitely.
Why not provide such money in a pump-priming exercise?
Surely, in principle, money would be more effectively spent on pump-priming new activity rather than on subsidising what exists already.
They may boast about how much they have put into the economy and about their pump-priming.
Local authorities can help by undertaking some pump-priming under the present legislation.
Will he take that into account and make some changes, so that the pump-priming operation has this export spin-off?
He goes further by saying that, to start, we might have to do pump-priming.