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start out

vb. to begin one's life, or occupation.

WordNet
start out
  1. v. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, get, start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end]

  2. leave; "The family took off for Florida" [syn: depart, part, start, set forth, set off, set out, take off]

Usage examples of "start out".

Suppose ten of us start out in a semi-circle from about here and go as far as this point, heading inland.

To revert to the picnic: even though you admit that it may rain, you start out if you think fine weather probable, but you allow for the opposite possibility by taking mackintoshes.

But now the sunbeams caught her also, and she seemed to start out in majesty from a veil of rosy mist, a wonderful and thrilling sight.

A labyrinth of grandeur, less the property of an old family of human beings and their ghostly likenesses, than of an old family of echoings and thunderings which start out of their hundred graves at every sound, and go resounding through the building.

Her sense of relief at not having to start out at once showed her for the first time how tired she was.

If any one wants to see how vivid is the gratitude to Columbus, let him start out among our business-houses with a subscription-paper to raise money for powder to be exploded in his honor.

I'll give you a map that will get you to the preserve, and you can start out from there.

Garak expected everyone to become a bit ripe by the end of play, but to start out that way was a bad omen.

There's quite a backlist, so the site will start out meaty and grow bigger.