NOUN
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the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
with an hour's start he will be hard to catch
How To Use head start In A Sentence
- Although AT&T is touting its lead in postpaid smartphone subscribers, the carrier is just now taking steps to gain a better foothold in the prepaid market, an area where rivals have a head start. AT&T Reshapes Itself As a Smartphone Carrier
- That way, shallow rooted weeds like foxtail and bluegrass will be unable to grow until the alfalfa has a head start.
- Get a head start on spring-cleaning and donate clothes, toys, furniture, household items, and old computers to nonprofits accepting them.
- His oldest brother, Tory, would give him an hour's head start before following in his car.
- By early summer her tan has a head start and she is very brown indeed. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
- You've got a head start over/on others trying to get the job because you've got relevant work experience.
- It world take forever to find the pair in town, especially with nearly an hour head start.
- Start by finding out if a more-fitting job exists within your company, in which case you may have a head start over the other schnooks who want it.
- Her head started pounding, so she lifted a hand to the area where she had bumped her head and winced when she felt the forming swelling of a lump.
- However, naming a rose after a well-loved public figure can give it a head start.
