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.
The debates tend to have a minimal impact unless one candidate or the other sweeps the issues, in which case it can jump-start a laggard campaign.
The online contest will jump-start ideas which will form practical plans that, in turn, may gain public exposure, influence public policy and perhaps win financial support for implementation.
With the onset of industrialization, new businesses needed an easy form of credit to jump-start their activities, without having to take out loans on securities they didn't necessarily have.
A surgeon declares her dead after failed attempts to jump-start her heart but does not call time of death, so that the husband can say goodbye.
The man was crushed while helping to jump-start a truck.
Diverse microorganisms in the payload can populate new environments, and eukaryotic spores can jump-start higher evolution.
She can also jump-start a newly emerging mutant power though to an undefined extent, and can redirect the force of magnetic fields into negative matter.
Manifold alignment also facilitates transfer learning, in which knowledge of one domain is used to jump-start learning in correlated domains.
