Definition of "jump-started" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of jump-start. (verb)

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• "World War II jump-started New York's economy, and a few benefits trickled uptown to Harlem, but from the Depression to the 1990s times were hard, never more so than during "the fiscal crisis that engulfed New York City in the mid-1970s.""
• ""The microbe-rich concoction jump-started life," Mr. Sinskey said."
• "In fact, the Brazilian government has consistently played a central role in economic planning and investment since the 1930s, when Brazilians jump-started industrialization and sought economic autonomy in response to worldwide depression."