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(sprɪŋbɔːʳd)
Word forms: plural springboards
1. countable noun
If something is a springboard for something else, it makes it possible for that thing to happen or start.
The 1981 budget was the springboard for an economic miracle. [+ for/to]
It could provide a springboard to success.
2. countable noun
A springboard is a flexible board from which you jump into a swimming pool or onto a piece of gymnastic equipment.

springboard in British English

(ˈsprɪŋˌbɔːd)
noun
1. 
a flexible board, usually projecting low over the water, used for diving
2. 
a similar board used for gaining height or momentum in gymnastics
3.  Australian and New Zealand
a board inserted into the trunk of a tree at some height above the ground on which a lumberjack stands to chop down the tree
4. 
anything that serves as a point of departure or initiation

springboard in American English

(ˈsprɪŋˌbɔrd)
noun
1. 
a flexible, springy board used by acrobats, gymnasts, etc. as a takeoff in performing various feats of leaping
2. 
diving board
3. 
anything serving as the starting point or providing the impetus for something else

Examples of 'springboard' in a sentence
springboard

This success at home should provide a springboard for continued international success.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
That provides students a springboard into their chosen career.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Hopefully that will provide a springboard for us to fight for silverware next year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
His immense success provided a springboard to the international career for which his voice was clearly destined.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This did not feel like a springboard to better things.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It was merely the springboard to bigger things.
The Sun (2011)
It felt like a springboard for better things.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The question is whether they can use this result as a springboard for future success.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This then becomes the springboard for launching game plans, tactics and moments of individual brilliance.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Can they use this as a springboard and finally become the European force they should be?
The Sun (2014)
This begins an informative year, in which challenges provide a springboard for valuable insights.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It provides also a springboard for its close relative and fellow deadly sin, jealousy.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Facing the reality of both personal dying and bereavement went on to provide a springboard for active attention to all aspects of loss.
Carpenter, Anne & Johnson, Geoffrey Why am I Afraid to Grieve (1994)
Both teams were only too aware before kick-off that victory could provide the springboard to survival.
The Sun (2013)
The question now is: will it prove a springboard to bigger things?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
If successful, the play could be a springboard to great things for all involved.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The challenge is to make it a springboard to future success, rather than merely alanding platform.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A building block that would have come from a goalless draw had suddenly become a potential springboard.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Senior business leaders have a particularly strong responsibility to use their success as a springboard to try to improve society, he added.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
And I reckon this will provide the springboard they needed to distance themselves from their rivals.
The Sun (2013)
The springboard is set 3m above the pool and the fixed platform at 10m.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I remember watching and being mighty impressed and hoping that this would be a springboard to better things for him, but it was not to be.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He is taken for an impersonator and becomes a TV celebrity, which becomes the springboard for another tilt at politics.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)

In other languages
springboard

British English: springboard NOUN
If something is a springboard for something else, it makes it possible for that thing to happen or start.
The budget that year was the springboard for an economic miracle.
  • American English: springboard
  • Brazilian Portuguese: trampolim
  • Chinese: > 跳板使某事得以开始的
  • European Spanish: trampolín
  • French: tremplin
  • German: Sprungbrett
  • Italian: trampolino
  • Japanese: 出発点
  • Korean: 발판
  • European Portuguese: trampolim
  • Latin American Spanish: trampolín
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