SPRINGBOARD


Meaning of SPRINGBOARD in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

provide

Working partnerships forged at home have provided a good springboard for launching several initiatives with partners abroad.

Western officials promoted the site as a cradle of local entrepreneurship that would provide an economic springboard for the country.

The full-colour illustrations will motivate children's interest and provide an excellent springboard for both oral and written work.

Then he provided the springboard for the second with a long, perfectly-judged touch kick.

use

The Senate is notorious for closing ranks against any young politicians who try to use it as a springboard for something grander.

Here the viewing of the sequence is used as a springboard for a set of activities which follow it.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Close friends Melisa Moses and Jenny Keim earned the two springboard spots.

His new job was a springboard for Mr Major's own Cabinet career.

Maybe this will be a springboard for us to compete for the rest of the season.

She should be a favorite in the three-meter springboard and the platform, but things are never that simple for Clark.

The cast in-situ concrete diving platforms have 3m springboards together with 3, 5, 7 and 10m fixed platforms.

The full-colour illustrations will motivate children's interest and provide an excellent springboard for both oral and written work.

This story can be the springboard to a whole set of tales about the lion and the mouse.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.