kick-start

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English

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Noun

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kick-start (plural kick-starts)

  1. Alternative spelling of kick start
    • 2010 September, Clarence Harmon, "Ideas from the Young", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 74:
      Ten million dollars of seed money could provide the necessary kick-start for the initiative.

Verb

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kick-start (third-person singular simple present kick-starts, present participle kick-starting, simple past and past participle kick-started)

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    • 2020 July 15, Marion Gourlay, “Old Oak Common: no ordinary station”, in Rail, page 48:
      "Old Oak Common station will not only act as a catalyst for the regeneration of this neglected part of west London, it is already helping to kick-start the UK's economy.