WordNet
n. 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" [syn: point of departure]
Usage examples of "jumping-off place".
The jumping-off place for the Byzantium run is almost always the same: the plaza in front of Haghia Sophia.
But that had been the jumping-off place, you might say, the end of somewhere.
From there, by buying passage on small coastal vessels, I tried to work my way down the Balearic coast of Spain towards Gibraltar, which I supposed would be a good jumping-off place.
This was the jumping-off place for the Arctic, the first outpost of civilisation on the Alaskan Highway.
We'd first met when I was on the Brukkaros job for the Americans, since Keetmanshoop is_ the jumping-off place for the extinct volcano.
Perfectly accessible by car now, but when Francis was born it was thought by a lot of people to be the Jumping-Off Place, because you couldn't get there except by a rather primitive train.
When we come to the jumping-off place we'll simply cut off everything that is sending out traceable vibrations.
No, so far as we're concerned, you people no longer figure in it--except of course as his last known jumping-off place into nothingness.
It's ten days' journey from the end of the world, the jumping-off place of Hell.