launch pad

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English

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A launch vehicle at a launch pad

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Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɔːntʃ.pæd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɑntʃ.pæd/, /ˈlɔntʃ.pæd/

Noun

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launch pad (plural launch pads)

  1. The surface or structure from which a launch is made.
  2. (figuratively) A starting point.
    • 2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate[1]:
      Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.
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