JUMPING-OFF PLACE


Meaning of JUMPING-OFF PLACE in English

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1.

a. : a place regarded as marking the farthest limit of civilization : a remote or isolated place

b. : the end or edge of the world

seemed suddenly to be at the end of the world, the jumping-off place — National Geographic

2. : a place from which some enterprise is launched : a point of departure

a jumping-off place for the conquest of the rest of Europe — P.E.Mosely

a jumping-off place for reflection — Maurice Valency

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