starting pointnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈstɑː.tɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt/us/ˈstɑːr.t̬ɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt/UK also start pointa place or position where something begins:
The starting point for the guided tour of the town is in the market square.
The committee emphasized that its report was only meant as a starting point for discussion.
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Beginnings and starts
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- clean
- go/be back to square one idiom
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- jumping-off point
- seed
- square
- starting time
- the outset
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- thin
- trigger
- zero hour
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