running start

running start
noun
1. a racing start in which the contestants are already in full motion when they pass the starting line
• Syn: ↑flying start
• Hypernyms: ↑racing start
2. a quick and auspicious beginning
• Syn: ↑flying start
• Hypernyms: ↑start

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noun
1. : a start effected by setting off the competitors in a race from a point behind the starting line so that they are in rapid motion when crossing that line
2. : a great initial impetus or advantage in carrying out a project

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1. Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
2. an initial advantage in undertaking something; a head start: His background gave him a running start in business.
[1925-30]

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running start,
1. = flying start. (Cf. ↑flying start)
2. Figurative: »

He designed the machines that later gave Renault a running start in the postwar period (Wall Street Journal).

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noun [singular]
chiefly US
— used to say that a person or animal is running at the start of a race, jump, etc.

How fast can you cover 100 meters if you have a running start? [=if you are already running when you pass the starting point of that 100 meters?]

The sprinters were given a running start. [=were allowed to be running at the start of the race]

— often used figuratively

The new mayor is off to a running start. [=flying start] [=the new mayor has been successful very quickly]

The company was given a running start [=head start, advantage] by its experience with similar projects in the past.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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