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[ noun ] the time at which something is supposed to begin

Examples

"they got an early start" "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"

Used in print

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Let me say at the outset that the music sounded as sparkling on the last playing as it did on the first .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Thus , if we are to observe American folklore in the twentieth century , we will do_well to establish the relationships between folklore , nationalism and imperialism at the outset .

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