trigger off

Questions about trigger off

What does trigger off mean?

trigger off means "put in motion or move to act".

What is another word for trigger off?

Close synonyms include trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off. 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 trigger off a common word?

trigger off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.