Wiktionary
vb. 1 To begin. 2 To set out on a trip.
Usage examples of "start off".
But the count entirely repudiated all idea of shrinking from what, quite as much as the captain, he regarded as a sacred duty, and turning to Lieutenant Procope, told him that unless some better plan could be devised, he was prepared to start off at once and make the attempt to skate across to Formentera.
Often you have to go back to that point in your journey in order to start off in a new way.
Although you start off with easy-to-handle situations, eventually take on the really tough, challenging problem situations.
Again he watched the sphere start off after its victim, hit the rock, bound up, and settle, quivering.
Occasionally, as he would complete a sentence amid shouts of laughter, he would return up the alley to his desk, consult his notes, take a sip of water and start off again.
He had the feeling of unexplained excitement with which, on half-holidays at school, he used to start off into the unknown.
Marilla had seen Anne start off to school on the first day of September with many secret misgivings.
As much as Garion wanted to stay on Brand's good side, however, he did not intend to start off the official relationship between his bride-to-be and himself by publicly humiliating her.
They start off with a small time family member and work their way up.
It's like all these other organizations that start off with such a rush and let on they're going to change the whole works, and pretty soon they peter out and everybody forgets all about 'em!