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noun the floor of a building at or nearest to ground level.
Informal . an advantageous position or opportunity in a business matter, especially in a new enterprise: She took the job in the new company because she wanted to get in on the ground floor.
Origin of ground floor First recorded in 1595–1605
Words nearby ground floor grounder, ground fault, ground-fault interrupter, groundfire, ground fish, ground floor , ground floor, get in on the, ground fog, ground frost, ground game, ground glass
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Example sentences from the Web for ground floor Entering Morbid Anatomy from an unremarkable, industrial street in Brooklyn, its ground-floor coffee shop/bookstore is buzzing.
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He had been renting his current place—a ground-floor apartment in a house on a hill—for the past four years.
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The library forms part of the Museum, which occupies a ground-floor wing of the castle.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete | Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
In one room on the ground-floor there was a great collection of mechanical toys.
"It will do nicely," she told him; and together they went down the broad marble stair to the ground-floor.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush | Francis Lynde
There was a light in the window of a ground-floor room; he approached.
Notre-Dame de Paris | Victor Hugo
The only approach to it on the ground-floor lay through the butler's bedroom, of which you might call it but a cupboard.
Wandering Heath | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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British Dictionary definitions for ground floor noun the floor of a building level or almost level with the ground
get in on the ground floor or start from the ground floor informal to enter a business, organization, etc, at the lowest level to be in a project, undertaking, etc, from its inception Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to ground floor head start, beginnings, preliminaries