point of origin in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "points of origin",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "points of origin"
      },
      "expansion": "point of origin (plural points of origin)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 October, “Reclaiming Permanent Way Material”, in Railway Magazine, page 436",
          "text": "In the United States the Santa Fe was a pioneer in centralising its scrap handling at Corwith, near Chicago, but after 1924 abandoned this plan in favour of sorting at the point of origin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place where something comes from or originates."
      ],
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      "links": [
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        [
          "comes from",
          "come from"
        ],
        [
          "originate",
          "originate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "point of origin"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "points of origin",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "points of origin"
      },
      "expansion": "point of origin (plural points of origin)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 October, “Reclaiming Permanent Way Material”, in Railway Magazine, page 436",
          "text": "In the United States the Santa Fe was a pioneer in centralising its scrap handling at Corwith, near Chicago, but after 1924 abandoned this plan in favour of sorting at the point of origin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place where something comes from or originates."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ],
        [
          "comes from",
          "come from"
        ],
        [
          "originate",
          "originate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "point of origin"
}

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"point of origin" meaning in English

Noun