jumping-off place

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Noun jumping-off place has 1 sense

jumping-off place, point of departure - 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"
--₁ is a kind of beginning, origin, root, rootage, source