1. The situation in which you begin an endeavour and to which you return if your efforts fail
   "the police are now back at square one after having arrested and released 27 men"; "she has tried to diet but always ends up back at square one"

Type of: situation, state of affairs

Encyclopedia: Square one

• self-rising flour
• self-rule
• self-sacrifice
• self-sacrificing
• self-satisfaction
• self-satisfied
• self-sealing
• self-seeded
• self-seeker
• self-seeking
• self-service
• self-serving
• self-sowed
• self-sown
• self-starter
• self-stimulation
• self-styled
• self-sufficiency
• self-sufficient
• self-sufficing
• self-suggestion
• self-supporting
• self-sustained
• self-sustaining
• self-taught