launch pad

See also: launchpad

English

A launch vehicle at a launch pad

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Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɔːntʃ.pæd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɑntʃ.pæd/, /ˈlɔntʃ.pæd/

Noun

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], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 July 2026:
      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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