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false start
Word forms: plural false starts
1. countable noun
A false start is an attempt to start something, such as a speech, project, or plan, which fails because you were not properly prepared or ready to begin.
Any economic reform, he said, faced false starts and mistakes.
2. countable noun
If there is a false start at the beginning of a race, one of the competitors moves before the person who startsthe race has given the signal.
false start in British English
noun
1. sport
an illegal start to a race, caused by a competitor beginning to move before the prescribed signal
2.
any premature attempt to begin an activity
verb false-start
3. (intransitive)
to make a false start
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British English: false start NOUN
A false start is an attempt to start something, which fails because you were not properly prepared or ready to begin.
Any economic reform, he said, faced false starts and mistakes.
- American English: false start
- Brazilian Portuguese: falso começo
- Chinese: 失败的开端
- European Spanish: salida en falso
- French: faux départ
- German: Fehlstart
- Italian: falsa partenza
- Japanese: 出だしの失敗
- Korean: 잘못된 시작
- European Portuguese: falso começo
- Latin American Spanish: salida en falso
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