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JUMPING-OFF PLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jumping-off place mean? 

JUMPING-OFF PLACE (noun)
  The noun JUMPING-OFF PLACE has 1 sense:

1. a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launchedplay

  Familiarity information: JUMPING-OFF PLACE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JUMPING-OFF PLACE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

jumping-off place; point of departure

Context example:

my point of departure was San Francisco

Hypernyms ("jumping-off place" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)


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