springboard has definitions from the field of games
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[ noun ] (games) a flexible board for jumping upward

Used in print

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

The parallel_bars , horse , buck , springboard , horizontal_bar , rings , and mats formerly in the school gyms were replaced by baseball , volleyball , basketball and football .

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board diving_board

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[ noun ] a beginning from which an enterprise is launched

Examples

"he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own" "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions" "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but mu

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beginning

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