Definition of "kickstarted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of kickstart. (verb)

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• "Nurses at Baragwanath said on Wednesday "industrial action" would be "kickstarted" on Friday after the Cabinet rejected their demand of a 33 percent pay hike for this financial year."
• "The euro's gains kickstarted a move for other currencies away from the dollar, as investors ignored a better-than-expected reading of a U.S. non-manufacturing index released Tuesday."
• ""There have been a number of other charities given grants by the Department for Education on precisely this basis without tendering, and for the same reason? that a programme was to be kickstarted and there was one obvious organisation to help," she said."