"jumping-off point" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Includes a deverbal component from jump off.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jumping-off points",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "jumping-off point"
      },
      "expansion": "jumping-off point (plural jumping-off points)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English deverbals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:",
          "text": "Not far south of Keelung is the small inland town of Juifang, the jumping-off point for one of northern Taiwan’s most picturesque getaways.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 September 18, David Clough, “Riding the route of the 'Riviera Express'”, in RAIL, number 1018, page 39:",
          "text": "St Davids is also the jumping-off point for the Tarka Line to Barnstaple, and to Exmouth as well as to Waterloo, all of which makes the station a busy location.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A starting point for a mission, adventure, investigation etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-jumping-off_point-en-noun-YS7niKER",
      "links": [
        [
          "starting point",
          "starting point"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "jumping-off place"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jumping-off point"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Includes a deverbal component from jump off.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jumping-off points",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "jumping-off point"
      },
      "expansion": "jumping-off point (plural jumping-off points)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English deverbals",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:",
          "text": "Not far south of Keelung is the small inland town of Juifang, the jumping-off point for one of northern Taiwan’s most picturesque getaways.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 September 18, David Clough, “Riding the route of the 'Riviera Express'”, in RAIL, number 1018, page 39:",
          "text": "St Davids is also the jumping-off point for the Tarka Line to Barnstaple, and to Exmouth as well as to Waterloo, all of which makes the station a busy location.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A starting point for a mission, adventure, investigation etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "starting point",
          "starting point"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "jumping-off place"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jumping-off point"
}