Verb
(economics) To engage in deficit spending [from 1930s].
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.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWhat the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery. Eric Cantor
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out. John C. Maxwell