head start

1. 1.

   the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)

   “with an hour's start he will be hard to catch”

   Synonymsstart

   Broaderadvantage

Questions about head start

What does head start mean?

head start means "the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)".

What is another word for head start?

Close synonyms include start. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is head start a common word?

head start is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.