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[ noun ] advantage gained by an early start as in a race

Synonyms

start

Examples

: "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch"

Used in print

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

If a nation wished to get a head_start in physical fitness over all other nations , it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large_number of the problems that plague American schools .

Related terms

advantage

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