The word "fillip" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used as a verb, meaning to "give a boost or spur to something" or to "stimulate or revive". For example, "The new tax cuts were a fillip for the struggling economy."
It would also give a major fillip to the city's 10-year plan to deliver 7,500 new jobs, something that Steven Bayes, a Labour councillor, believes would be a "tipping point" for Hull, as most of the positions would be created in the service sector and require little training.
For Fine Gael, Lee's decision has been another major fillip in a year that has seen them soaring in the opinion polls.
The sharp decline in the global oil price, from $100-plus 100-plus last autumn to just $50, came as an exquisitely timed fillip for the Conservatives.
Megalomania has often given a fillip to science, and I am given to understand that cryonic advances today are basically being driven by the Kevin Pietersen Society's desire to restore him to this rightful place in the England batting order.
The 67-year-old took over a national team of high expectation and low achievement when it was desperately in need of a fillip.
Ten thousand people have joined the Liberal Democrats since last Thursday's general election, giving the party a welcome fillip after losing 48 of their 56 MPsin the vote.
Economists expect the lower oil price to have provided a fillip to eurozone growth in the opening months of the year and have pencilled in a 0.5% pick-up in GDP, according to a Reuters poll ahead of Wednesday's figures.
In the southern town of Gjirokaster, old sympathisers of Mr Berisha who lost jobs in the customs service have attacked government buildings.Earlier this month Mr Nano had a fillip when Mr Berisha's Democrats said they might end their four-month boycott of parliament, which had been prompted by a Socialist MP shooting a Democratic counterpart during a row over VAT.
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Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value-added tax, consumer spending will fall sharply.
It is also a fillip for global efforts to combat climate change.
