GROUND FLOOR Definition & Meaning

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ground floor

noun

the floor of a building at or nearest to ground level.
Informal.��an advantageous position or opportunity in a business matter, especially in a new enterprise.
She took the job in the new company because she wanted to get in on the ground floor.

ground floor

noun

the floor of a building level or almost level with the ground
informal��
1. to enter a business, organization, etc, at the lowest level
2. to be in a project, undertaking, etc, from its inception

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of ground floor¹

First recorded in 1595–1605

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He now teaches at USC and a couple days a week at the YMF school, tucked into the ground floor of a subsidized housing complex.

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The roof of the red sandstone building - where the Royal Bar is on the ground floor - has been completely destroyed.

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The couple later saw the students had "got out of the school on the ground floor, from the other side" where they "gathered on the street", Franz said.

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Designs include a new public 'Art Hall' on the ground floor of the site, which first opened in 1988, and a greener gallery to reduce running costs and end the building's reliance on fossil fuels.

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When the first firefighters arrived, a ground floor room at the hospital was already ablaze and the fire was threatening to spread to the room above.

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