outset
pronunciation
How to pronounce outset in British English:
UK [ˈaʊtset]
How to pronounce outset in American English:
US [ˈaʊtset]
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- Noun:
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
Word Origin
- outset (n.)
- "act of setting out on a journey, business, etc." 1759, from out + set (v.). The earlier word for this was outsetting (1670s).
Synonym
Example
- 1. At the outset , western warplanes prevented a massacre in benghazi .
- 2. But as I said at the outset , vegetarianism has lasted .
- 3. Who makes money and how much is not always clear at the outset .
- 4. At the outset , fukuyama posits a link between darwinian natural selection and political evolution .
- 5. The documents have been used by critical researchers since the outset of the wikileaks project .