Usage of "jumping-off place"

A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched.

Usage of jumping-off place in English

You were born only five miles from the jumping-off place, my dear. 
 Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02 

It will just be a sort of jumping-off place into Space for us. 
 A Honeymoon in Space 

A stone weir slowed the current and was a favorite diving and jumping-off place. 
 Atonement 

And that brings us around to the jumping-off place again. 
 The Taming of Red Butte Western 

Before long we arrived at what may be called the " jumping-off place." 
 The Lake of the Sky / Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of Californ... 

I couldn't see at the time where I could find a better jumping-off place. 
 The Lost Valley 

I suppose the Foreign Office will help me to get to the jumping-off place? 
 Greenmantle 

Don't you know you are standing on the very edge of the jumping-off place? 
 The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost C... 

Having that in common probably isn't much of a jumping-off place for us, is it? 
 Fortunate harbor 

At the end of twenty steps the corridor ended in a " jumping-off place." 
 The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain 

Sitka has always seemed to me the jumping-off place. 
 Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska 

Inconnu is the jumping-off place for most climbing trips into the Vampires or the Cirque. 
 Climbing Magazine 

It's the jumping-off place-theend of a narrow-gaugerailroad. 
 Joan of Arc of the North Woods 

I thought I'd reached the jumping-off place, at first. 
 Lonesome Land 

The outlandish dresses that you had made at that jumping-off place in the West won't answer. 
 A Young Girl's Wooing 

This looks like the jumping-off place to me. 
 Tom Swift and His Air Scout; Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky 

Meanings of jumping-off place in English