The word "catalyse" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when something or someone stimulates or speeds up a process or reaction. For example: "The new policy catalyzed the financial recovery of the country."
Miliband brought in the community organiser Arnie Graf from Chicago to try to catalyse mass participation and allow party supporters to lead, rather than merely follow orders.
On these shores, rumours suggest that were Simon Rattle to be thinking about possibly running the London Symphony Orchestra, he would, hypothetically, in an ideal world where everything's putatively perfect, demand, or rather catalyse, the construction of a new concert hall somewhere, somehow, in all probability in the City of London.
This simply feeds into negative stereotypes of workers and can catalyse mistreatment of workers by their employers".
Mayors develop job programmes, build affordable housing, catalyse pre-school education and ensure the garbage gets picked up.
"The B Team can catalyse initiatives," he told Guardian Sustainable Business.
Together with the iTunes download service, launched in 2003, it enabled Apple to catalyse and dominate a new digital-music industry.
It could catalyse further mergers that would bring gains of their own.
And it would complete NASA's transformation into a leaner and more responsive organisation, better able to concentrate on its main objectives of research and helping to catalyse the gradual privatisation of the space industry.
Yemenis fear that the Saudi action will catalyse the country's long-predicted collapse into what Jamal Benomar, the UN envoy to Yemen, has described as an "Iraq-Libya-Syria" scenario.The air strikes have laid bare the divisions caused by the Houthis' rise.
But in this field, the best answer is probably to go back to nature or, at least, to snaffle her best ideas.Natural enzymes, which catalyse the reactions that make life possible, generally turn out only one enantiomer.
A properly structured Asian Monetary Fund could do much for the international financial system, just as the Asian Development Bank (and other regional development banks) have done for global development finance for over 30 years.Sub-regional, and even East Asia-wide, trade agreements could catalyse the global trading system in the same way.
