jumping-off place

1. 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”

   Synonymspoint of departure

   Broaderbeginning

Questions about jumping-off place

What does jumping-off place mean?

jumping-off place means "a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched".

What is another word for jumping-off place?

Close synonyms include point of departure. 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 jumping-off place a common word?

jumping-off place 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.