outset

[out-set] /ˈaʊtˌsɛt/

noun

the beginning or start:

I wanted to explain the situation at the outset.

Origin

1530-40; out- + set

Examples from the web for outset

But the carmakers do not have to convince everyone at the outset.
His work was subjected to peer review from the outset.
Clay's political gifts were apparent from the outset.
But what they know after all that research is essentially what they knew at the study's outset.
The authors acknowledge that with economic metrics as a frame, the study of costs and benefits is limited from the outset.
Remember to establish a scale and a north arrow at the outset.
Our communication gap when it came to math was a yawning chasm at the outset.
True to the novel, our heroine is dead from the outset.
Good headnotes and questions at the outset and good summary questions as well.
It will be the first large-scale city car-sharing service to use only electric vehicles right from the outset.

British Dictionary definitions for outset

/ˈaʊtˌsɛt/

noun

a start; beginning (esp in the phrase from (or at) the outset)

Word Origin and History for outset

"act of setting out on a journey, business, etc." 1759, from out + set (v.). The earlier word for this was outsetting (1670s).

Idioms and Phrases with outset