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springboard
[spring-bawrd, -bohrd]
noun
a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
a flexible board used as a takeoff in vaulting, tumbling, etc., to increase the height of leaps.
something that supplies the impetus or conditions for a beginning, change, or progress; a point of departure.
a lecture to serve as a springboard for a series of seminars.
verb (used with or without object)
to impel or launch on or as if on a springboard.
springboard
/ ˈɪŋˌɔː /
noun
a flexible board, usually projecting low over the water, used for diving
a similar board used for gaining height or momentum in gymnastics
a board inserted into the trunk of a tree at some height above the ground on which a lumberjack stands to chop down the tree
anything that serves as a point of departure or initiation
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of springboard1
Example Sentences
Switzerland want to replicate England's success as hosts three years ago and hope Euro 2025 can be a springboard to help grow their domestic women's game.
"We've got to give it that springboard to reinvent itself long-term."
Yusuf used some of the money he made from the deal as a springboard into politics, donating to Reform the following year.
His party's last by-election victory in the area - in the 2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West vote - proved to be a springboard to success in the following year's general election.
The diver won bronze for Great Britain in the men's synchronised 3m springboard in Paris last summer after silver and bronze in Rio eight years earlier.
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