Definitions for jump-start

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Spelling: [juhmp-stahrt]
IPA: /ˈdʒʌmpˌstɑrt/

Jump-Start is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 336 anagrams from letters in jump-start (-ajmprsttu).

Definitions for jump-start

noun

  1. Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.

verb (used with object)

  1. to give a jump-start to:
  2. to enliven or revive:

Origin of jump-start

First recorded in 1975-80

Examples for jump-start

Within his own administration, Obama had to jump-start a policy that had effectively ground to a halt in 2011.

But the idea that tax reform will jump-start an economy suffering from the after-effects of a cyclical downturn is nonsense.

Facebook did not return a call querying about men using the social networking site to jump-start their fantasizing.

I'd totaled about three hours of sleep, and even three cups of the Turk's caffeine mud failed to jump-start my brain.

Progressive economic ideas will jump-start the economy and create jobs.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday his intent to jump-start the office—a crucial engine of the civil-rights movement.

The White House, she said, is “not doing enough to jump-start negotiations.”

Summers and his economic team had an unenviable job, figuring out a way to jump-start the economy after the collapse of 2008.

“They said they were going to ‘make me talk,’ that they were going to ‘jump-start me like a car,’” he shivered.

But Obama has to test himself as well and put some smart compromises on the table to jump-start serious negotiations.

Word Value for jump-start
Scrable

15

Words with friends

20

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