jumping-off place

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jump·ing-off place

(jŭm′pĭng-ôf′, -ŏf′)

1. A beginning point for a journey or venture.

2. A very remote spot.

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jumping-off place

jumping-off point

1. a starting point, as in an enterprise

2. a final or extreme condition

3. Canadian a place where one leaves civilization to go into the wilderness

4. US a very remote spot

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jump′ing-off′ place`

1. a place used as a starting point, as for a trip or enterprise.

2. an out-of-the-way place; the farthest limit of anything settled or civilized.

Also called jump′ing-off′ point`.

[1820–30]

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jumping-off place - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco"

point of departure

origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

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jumping-off place

[ˌdʒʌmpɪŋˈɒfˌpleɪs] jumping-off point [ˌdʒʌmpɪŋˈɒfˌpɔɪnt] N → punto m de partida

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jumping-off place

n (fig) (for negotiations) → Ausgangsbasis f; (for job) → Sprungbrett nt

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