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point of departure
noun
Nautical.the precise location of a vessel, established in order to set a course, especially in beginning a voyage in open water.
a place to begin, as in a discussion, argument, etc.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of point of departure1
Example Sentences
Let’s finally acknowledge how much we don’t know, and from that new point of departure, do everything we can to save our home.
They then set off to meet the prime ministers across the border in Poland, the train’s point of departure.
Central to the fall in crossings to Italy are financial deals struck with Tunisia and Libya – migrants’ main points of departure.
“I want this to be a point of departure for both me and the viewer,” she said.
This comes back to Brooks’s original point of departure: the act of decomposing, or a whale fall.
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