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outset
[
out
-set
]
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Origin
out·set
/
ˈaʊtˌsɛt
/
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[
out
-set
]
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noun
1.
the beginning or start:
I wanted to explain the situation at the outset.
2.
outsert.
Origin:
1530–40;
out-
+
set
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
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. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Example Sentences
If you were worth your salt as teachers, you would make this clear to your students at the
outset
.
But at the same time, it's surprising what you may find at a place that doesn't look that exciting at the
outset
.
Viewers are struck at the
outset
by the rich look of her pictures.
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If you were worth your salt as teachers, you would make this clear to your students at the
outset
.
But at the same time, it's surprising what you may find at a place that doesn't look that exciting at the
outset
.
Viewers are struck at the
outset
by the rich look of her pictures.
True to the novel, our heroine is dead from the
outset
.
Clay's political gifts were apparent from the
outset
.
With better care at the
outset
of the illness, it actually saves money in the long run.
In all of them his thinking was widely regarded at the
outset
as eccentric or worse.
It will be the first large-scale city car-sharing service to use only electric vehicles right from the
outset
.
The authors acknowledge that with economic metrics as a frame, the study of costs and benefits is limited from the
outset
.
The choice of editors signals from the
outset
a different kind of literary history.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
outset
(ˈaʊtˌsɛt)
—
n
a start; beginning (esp in the phrase
from
(
or
at
)
the outset
)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
outset
"act of setting out on a journey, business, etc." 1759, from
out
+
set
(v.). The earlier word for this was outsetting (1676).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
outset
see
at the outset
.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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