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:
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:
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.
Rather, exposure to input that has prosodic, phonological, and statistical consistencies is sufficient to jump-start the learning process.
These programs, as well as guaranteed loan and grant programs, act as a sort of venture capital to jump-start new industries.
Unless we tackle that with market mechanisms to jump-start the recycling industry, we shall simply pour more rubbish into incinerators.
His intent was to create a "hypersigil" to jump-start the culture in a more positive direction.
He said such a move could jump-start negotiations that might lead to the soldiers' release.
A double battery jump-start is performed by some tow truck drivers in cold climates.
The now-vacant body is then used as fuel to jump-start the foglet.
Manifold alignment also facilitates transfer learning, in which knowledge of one domain is used to jump-start learning in correlated domains.
