Betekenis van jump-start In het Nederlands

• 0 to start a car engine by pushing the car or by using jump leads

• 1 to improve a situation by taking a particular action:

  • Companies want lower interest rates to jump-start the nation's weak economy.

• 2 to start or improve something more quickly by giving it extra help:

  • These recordings jump-started her career.

• 3 to improve something such as an industry or economy more quickly by giving it extra help:

  • The new model is part of the company's effort to jump-start its American sales, which declined in 2006.

  • Companies want lower interest rates to jump-start the nation's weak economy.

• 4 extra help that makes something such as an industry or economy improve more quickly:

  • give sth/get a jumpstart The decision to build a new network will give the technology a jump-start.