jumping-off place

jump·ing-off place (jmpng-ôf, -f)

n.

1. A beginning point for a journey or venture.

2. A very remote spot.

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jumping-off place, point

n

1. a starting point, as in an enterprise

2. a final or extreme condition

3. Canadian a place where one leaves civilization to go into the wilderness

4. US a very remote spot

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

jumping-off place - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco" point of departure origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

Translations

jumping-off place [ˌdʒʌmpɪŋˈɒfˌpleɪs] jumping-off point [ˌdʒʌmpɪŋˈɒfˌpɔɪnt] N → punto m de partida

jumping-off place

n (fig) (for negotiations) → Ausgangsbasis f; (for job) → Sprungbrett nt