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Noun: jumping-off place
  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";
    - point of departure

Derived forms: jumping-off places

Type of: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source

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