jumping-off point

Noun
  1. A beginning from which an enterprise is launched (synset 100237061)
    "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"
    is a type of: beginning, commencement, start - the act of starting something
    same as: point of departure, springboard

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