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point of departure is a noun meaning "a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
“he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own”
“reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”
“the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for point of departure come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.