The word "kickstart" is a perfectly valid word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to starting something, or providing a jumpstart to an endeavour. For example, you could say "Their $500,000 investment kickstarted the project and allowed us to begin construction."
George Osborne has told public sector workers and the low paid that they will be the ones to pick up the bill for his attempts to kickstart Britain's stagnant economy, and warned that weaker growth and higher borrowing would force the country to endure a record breaking six years of austerity.
After planting some carrots on the street outside his house, LA resident Ron Finley helped kickstart a guerrilla gardening movement that has now resulted in the city passing a new law to allow free gardens next to sidewalks so communities can grow their own food.
"We hope it will also help kickstart a new nuclear build programme, creating jobs for tens of thousands of people".
Lovins is credited with helping to kickstart the global renewable energy revolution with a series of academic and policy papers in the 1960s and 70s.
Central banks around the world – most recently in the eurozone – have bought billions of dollars of bonds since the crisis, in an effort to drive down interest rates, which tend to move in the opposite direction to bond prices, and kickstart growth.
She called for structural reforms, continued fiscal consolidation, and a boost to women's employment levels, to help kickstart recovery.
Matches and moments define careers and when England left the field at half-time, trailing by seven points in a match depressingly short on inspiration and ambition, all kicks but no kickstart, a question to ponder was whether Owen Farrell would return for the second half.
It won't kickstart the economy on its own and comes at a time when the low-waged are being pushed into poverty and hit by cuts to tax credits.
Before yesterday's data, some economists had even predicted the UK could post its first positive growth since early 2008, and the size of the decline prompted immediate speculation that the Bank of England would be forced into fresh emergency action to kickstart activity.
To tackle this recession we must kickstart the green industrial revolution and work towards a sustainable, steady, state economy.
This is seen as a good way to kickstart a cultural programme, even if the building has nothing to display for a while.
