common ground

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Noun

common ground (uncountable)

  2. (idiomatic) A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.
    Hyponyms: rallying point, common cause
    The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met.
    • 1993 October 13, Todd Pipes, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, in Home‎[1], performed by Deep Blue Something, published 11 July 1995:
      You'll say, we've got nothing in common
      No common ground to start from
      And we're falling apart
    • 2025 October 11, Sylvie Kaufmann, “How domestic deadlock brought Macron back to earth”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
      On Monday, he tasked his third prime minister in 12 months, Sébastien Lecornu, to try again to find common ground between political parties dead set against doing so.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common,‎ ground; especially, common land.

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