Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To start out; start up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To start out or up.
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- verb To
start out or up.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is the only candidate running who had the judgment to do so from the outstart.
Gerth/Van Natta Publisher Promoting Disputed Point As Book's Top Revelation 2009
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No one at the outstart would have believed that a rookie Senator could take on the top Democratic fundraisers and beat them.
Happy Hour Roundup 2009
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So I judged they had our gang in a pretty tight place right at the outstart.
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They have felt very strongly about this case from the outstart.
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It begins with the education of the human being at the outstart of life, and is prolonged by virtue of the powerful influence which every good mother exercises over her children through life.
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It begins with the education of the human being at the outstart of life, and is prolonged by virtue of the powerful influence which every good mother exercises over her children through life.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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To give them Bach or Brahms at the outstart would be to irritate them.
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"The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew."
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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No one can advise you when to throw your "hat in the ring" and say defiantly at the outstart, "Gentlemen, I am here to fight!"
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906
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This was really the beginning, the outstart, of Nelson's great career; for Hood's interest in him, then aroused, and deepened by experience to the utmost confidence and appreciation, made itself felt the instant the French Revolutionary War began.
The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897
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