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launchpad

launchpad is the alternative form of launch pad.

Meaning of launch pad

Noun

launch pad (plural launch pads)

  1. The surface or structure from which a launch is made.
  2. (figuratively) A starting point.
    • 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...2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate

Forms of launchpad

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Questions about launchpad

What is launchpad the alternative form of?
Launchpad is the alternative form of launch pad.

Words near launchpad in the dictionary

  1. launchings
  2. launchman
  3. launchmaster
  4. launchmasters
  5. launchmen
  6. launchpad
  7. launchpads
  8. launcht
  9. launchway
  10. launchways
  11. launcing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: launchpad (page history and authors); launch pad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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