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kick sth off

Phrasal Verb with kick
 
 
/kɪk/ verb [T]

Definition

informal
if you kick off a discussion or an activity, you start it: kick (sth) off with sth/by doing sth I'd like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.
(Definition of kick sth off from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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