pump-priming
noun [ U ]
finance & economics
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Meaning of pump-priming in English
pump priming | Business English
pump priming
noun [ U ]
ECONOMICS
uk
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pump priming
adjective [ before noun ]
ECONOMICS
uk
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Examples of pump-priming
pump-priming
The pump-priming (as he called it) of grant aid for the rabbit clearance societies over the previous sixteen years had achieved its end.
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Thirdly, we must build up business confidence by tackling dereliction, by pump-priming investment and by improving local labour skills.
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We should build up business confidence by tackling dereliction, and by pump-priming investment in infrastructure.
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We must reintroduce building and refurbishment assistance, either as grants or as pump-priming loans to modernise and improve the infrastructure.
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Its original purpose, which was to sell information books and to provide a limited pump-priming subsidy to publishers, was largely overtaken.
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If one looks at the estates in the worst condition, it is unlikely that they will be refurbished without pump-priming investment.
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I can announce today a further £1.5 million of pump-priming funding over the next 12 months.
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He goes further by saying that, to start, we might have to do pump-priming.
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Will he take that into account and make some changes, so that the pump-priming operation has this export spin-off?
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Local authorities can help by undertaking some pump-priming under the present legislation.
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They may boast about how much they have put into the economy and about their pump-priming.
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Surely, in principle, money would be more effectively spent on pump-priming new activity rather than on subsidising what exists already.
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Why not provide such money in a pump-priming exercise?
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It was not envisaged that this essentially pump-priming support would be extended indefinitely.
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It is for the specific purpose of pump-priming improvement for sale schemes.
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