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Verb: trigger off
  1. Put in motion, initiate (a device, reaction, circuit, etc)
    "The sensor triggered off the alarm system";
    - trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, touch off

Derived forms: triggering off, triggers off, triggered off

Type of: initiate, pioneer