Usually means: Initiating function using external power.
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  1. jump-start: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jump-start: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jump-start: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jump-start, jump-start: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jump-start: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jump-Start, Jump-start, jump-start: Wordnik
  7. jump-start: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jump-start: Wiktionary
  9. jump-start: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jump-start: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jump-start: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jump-start: Dictionary.com
  13. jump-start: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. jump-start: Rhymezone
  15. jump-start: Free Dictionary
  16. jump-start: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. jump-start: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. jump-start: Encyclopedia

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verb:  (transitive) To start a motor vehicle by passing an electrical current from a charged battery to the discharged ("dead" or "flat") battery of the vehicle being started, by using booster cables to temporarily connect the two batteries in parallel.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To reactivate or rejuvenate.
noun:  The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle.
noun:  (sports) A false start.

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