Synonyms for start-off:
noun a beginning or place from which to begin
Examples of uses:
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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Title: The Red Year, author: Louis Tracy, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36478/36478-h/36478-h.htm
Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
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Title: How to Know the Ferns, author: S. Leonard Bastin, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45251/45251-h/45251-h.htm
The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
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Title: The Bondboy, author: George W. (George Washington) Ogden, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30567/30567-h/30567-h.htm
There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.
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Title: Children's Ways, author: James Sully, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37020/37020-h/37020-h.htm
But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.
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Title: The Homesteader, author: Oscar Micheaux, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39238/39238-h/39238-h.htm
He said that you were going along, and so I thought I'd hunt you up and tell you that we'll start about seven in the morning.
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Title: Raw Gold, author: Bertrand W. Sinclair, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18563/18563-h/18563-h.htm
The intellect is thus kept compulsorily and delightfully occupied from the start to the finish.
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Title: Assimilative Memory, author: Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette), url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25354/25354-h/25354-h.htm
It may be added that they start with the most dignified part of this crown of creation, viz., the human head.
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Title: Children's Ways, author: James Sully, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37020/37020-h/37020-h.htm
My father took me to the office in which I was to make a start and presented me to the chief clerk.
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Title: Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland, author: Joseph Tatlow, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17299/17299-h/17299-h.htm
My son gives the young men and women a complete wardrobe when they start out to win their way in life, and the details fall on me.
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Title: Ancestors, author: Gertrude Atherton, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31858/31858-h/31858-h.htm
