jumping-off point

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• February 29. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  jumping-off point — noun — english

  a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"