jump-off point in English

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          "ref": "1980 August 30, Jan R. Fielding, “Iron Bras & Virgin Births Mar Feminist Science Fiction”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 8",
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"jump-off point" meaning in English

Noun