outset
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌsɛt/
- I readily concede at the outset that my argument will not please professional historians.
- clear from the outset
- the very outset
- the outset of the article
He is presumed from the outset to be a risk to his children.
- He is presumed from the outset to be a risk to his children.
- Because people did not make their potential known at the outset.
- To just be dismissive all together from the outset is not really an objective way of.
- So the, the very, from the very outset, the purpose of doing this was to make money.
- Let's take the cases of Stanford and Chicago, both of them coeducational from the outset.
- In fact, that if you combine cognitive behavioral therapy with SSRIs from the outset, there's no additional benefit of SSRI.
- And it was very clearly stated from the outset from Sheikh Jaseem's bid that they did not want that.
- And we go into quite a bit of detail at the outset about just what this discipline is and it's subjects or objects of inquiry.
- One way to think about this is for a lot of these agencies, were many of them formed with a positive intention at the outset?
- And while those aims seemed to carry Ghana international support at the outset, the moment it came to Rougher, those aims were thrown out of the window.
- You cannot at the outset make your list of the five people to talk to and expect that that's where you're going to find the information.
- So they work on the the vaccine at the outset.
Examples
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Having said all that, I must tell you from the outset that the evening was a disaster.
Fiction book (1992) -
The project was, from the outset, a cooperative joint venture between IS and claims departments.
Academic text (1991) -
From the very outset, we must put both feet on the ground of language.
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I thought I just might mention at the outset that everything is in order.
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Let me state at the outset.
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As I said at the outset, my aim has not been to produce a universal model.
Academic text (2011) -
Six families either declined to participate at the outset or were not able to complete the study.
Academic text (2011) -
Last year, President Obama ordered that all of our International Development projects be designed from the outset with climate impacts in mind.
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From the outset, they were regarded as two linked organisations working towards the same objective, the creation of an independent Irish Republic.
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From the very outset, we must put both feet on the ground of language.
Synonyms
The first part of something when it starts
The time or place when something begins
In the beginning before things change
At first, before things change
At the start before anything else happens
At the start of something
A place, time, or situation that people use as a basis for later action
The very start of an activity or project
Right from the very start
The time when something first begins
The official start of an event or activity
The act of beginning something such as a project
The start of something, for example an event or action
The beginning of something or the first sound in a syllable
From the very beginning of something
An idea or fact used as a starting point for discussion and work
The first moment when a race or event begins
From the very beginning
From the beginning
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Outset is made from the simple parts out and set, like the phrase set out when you begin a journey. That's why outset means the 'start' or 'beginning' of something.