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.
It is a way of kick-starting, and we shall monitor how and whether it is working.
Housing is a key factor in economic regeneration, reducing unemployment and kick-starting local and national economies.
But that is not about kick-starting economic growth in a 'business as usual' direction.
Everyone is looking for breakthroughs, for ways of stimulating employment, kick-starting the engine of the global economy as soon as possible and halting climate change.
A frontload approach (a great deal of money in the first couple of years) is said to be the best way of kick-starting the economy.
I remind him that kick-starting is a rather inefficient method by which to start a very small engine.
There is no point in kick-starting the housing market or kick-starting the economy by means of a consumer boom.
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.
