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head start

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head start
n.
1. Sports A start before other contestants in a race.
2. An early start that confers an advantage.

head start
n
an initial advantage in a competitive situation
[originally referring to a horse's having its head in front of others at the start of a race]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.head start - the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race); "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch"
advantage, vantage - the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me"

head start
noun start, advantage, help, edge, upper hand A good education gives your child a head start in life.
Translations
head start n (Sport) (fig) to have a head startpartire avvantaggiato/a
head start n (Sport) (fig) to have a head startpartire avvantaggiato/a


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Thanks to five specially trained moms known as ``las promotoras'', or the promoters, Asia and dozens of her classmates at the Lowman Head Start program stand a good chance of having healthy smiles well into adulthood.
House of Representatives has voted narrowly to allow religious discrimination in hiring for Head Start centers run by religious groups.
The author concludes that an emerging belief in the malleability of children's intelligence, the "discovery" of poverty in the early 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's energetic education agenda, and the Democratic majority that passed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 combined to make Head Start possible.
 
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