Jump-start in a sentence as a noun

If you are young and smart but lacking in the big iron skills, it's not a bad way to jump-start a great career.

Namely, make them a huge pile of cash and jump-start their supply-chain so they can move into other areas.

"Would you mind please telling us the next big development before it happens so that we can get a jump-start on being so surprised?

Jump-start in a sentence as a verb

The goal is to jump-start a community there and maybe, if they're lucky, have a company be known as "that Chilean startup".

Another option would be to apply the endorsement system only after threads have reached a certain age so as to jump-start discussions.

I think that's true for each of the products, and even the set of products taken as a whole, but perhaps not from the perspective of trying to use them as a captive audience to jump-start Google+.

Jump-start definitions

noun

starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car; "my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor"

See also: jumpstart

verb

start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery

See also: jumpstart jump

verb

start or re-start vigorously; "The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process"

See also: jumpstart