An event, arrangement, provocation, etc. that leads a certain, generally violent or angered, action to be taken.

(economics) A pricing strategy in which a company sets the price of a product relative to an index value, with a time frame in which buyers can purchase the product for this price if the index-based price reaches an acceptable level. Usually the seller sets a minimum order size to qualify for the trigger price.

plural of trigger law

plural of parent trigger

(US, education, law) A legal maneuver through which parents can change the administration of a poorly performing public school, most notably by transforming it into a charter school.

(politics, law) A law which is not active until a particular event comes to pass, converting the inactive law into an active law on the books.

plural of triggering sequence

(computing, networking) A configuration option on a NAT-enabled router that controls communication between internal and external host machines on an IP network.

(explosives) A sequence of events that culminates in the detonation of explosives.

plural of port triggering