0 the activity of helping a business, programme, economy, etc. to develop by giving it money -- （对企业、项目或经济的）刺激增长政策；投资刺激
The government is awarding small, pump-priming grants to single mothers who are starting their own businesses. 政府对自己创业的单身母亲给予小额的鼓励性补助金。
Why not provide such money in a pump-priming exercise?
The trust is developing a range of pump-priming schemes.
The pump-priming (as he called it) of grant aid for the rabbit clearance societies over the previous sixteen years had achieved its end.
Surely, in principle, money would be more effectively spent on pump-priming new activity rather than on subsidising what exists already.
We have already taken the exceptional step of making an additional £10 million available for pump-priming of local services.
There should be increased funding direct from central government, possibly by way of pump-priming grants, normally for a minimum period of five years.
The real success of the new towns and the urban development corporations has been their ability to do some pump-priming.
We should build up business confidence by tackling dereliction, and by pump-priming investment in infrastructure.
