jump-start

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsjumpstartjump

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2. 2.

   start or re-start vigorously

   “The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process”

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1. 1.

   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”

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Questions about jump-start

What does jump-start mean?

jump-start means "start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jump-start?

jump-start has 2 syllables: jump--start. The stress falls on "start".

What is another word for jump-start?

Close synonyms include jumpstart, jump, jumpstart, jumpstart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jump-start a common word?

jump-start is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.