jumping-off place

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jumping-off place - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  jumping-off place
      n 1: 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" [syn: jumping-off place, point of departure
           ]