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kick-start

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. kick-startverb

    start (a motorcycle) by means of a kick starter

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kick-start in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kick-start in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of kick-start in a Sentence

  1. Chief Executive Bill Winters:

    The group needs to kick-start performance, reduce its cost base and bureaucracy ... and speed up decision making.

  2. Mike Levin:

    I think the way to really achieve regenerative medicine is to exploit the collective intelligence of the body's cells. They already know how to build all of these organs. They did it during embryonic development. All that information is still there, for me, the goal is to identify triggers, very simple kinds of stimuli, that will kick-start the cells and convince them to build whatever it is that you want them to build.

  3. Hakan Bjorkman:

    We need to kick-start counseling and testing on high risk groups, follow up on patients who have defaulted on their treatment, and restart campaigns in schools and public places now the bans have been lifted.

  4. Sonjoy Chatterjee:

    We believe the cyclical recovery in India has begun. The new government is focused on boosting potential growth and removing bottlenecks, which will kick start the investment and consumption cycles leading to enhanced GDP growth.

  5. European Commission:

    Europe needs a kick-start and today the Commission is applying the jump leads.


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