Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jumping-off_point

1 sense of jumping-off point

Sense 1
springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure -- (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")
       => beginning, start, commencement -- (the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations")