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- Practice the English pronunciation of prime the pump with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- (economics, idiomatic) To engage in deficit spending. [from 1930s]
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (economics, idiomatic) To engage in deficit spending. [from 1930s]
- (informal, idiomatic) To give something in order to create the conditions where others will give in return.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prime, the, pump.
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