Converse of object

• gain: You must first gain a foothold in the target machine.

• establish: Britain Modernism established a foothold in Britain only in the 1930s.

• secure: Credit Unions are at last securing a foothold in the UK.

• get: Now can we get a foothold in the cymbal market too?

• obtain: Here alone Portugal obtained an important foothold in South Africa.

• maintain: At the moorland edge, the rare black grouse maintains a precarious foothold.

Preposition: in

• market: Now can we get a foothold in the cymbal market too?

• match: However the Mexicans got a deserved foothold in the match through Fonseca's header.

• region: The Kurdish enclave called Safe Haven is only good until capitalism finds a better foothold in the region!

• game: Having made two changes at the break, Ukraine seemed set to battle for a foothold in the game.

• industry: How do you get a foothold in the industry?

• country: Facebook is an online social network which has swept the university population in the United States and is making a foothold in this country.

Adjective modifier

• strong: Stortford took a strong foothold with a 9/6 win.

• secure: By the 1860s commercial photography had found a secure foothold.

• solid: Over the past decade, women have earned a solid foothold in the Legislative Yuan.

• significant: What we do not drive: Japanese trucks have failed to gain any significant foothold in the European market.

• first: Their first foothold was on the shores of the River Tay.

• good: The Media Vault has allowed our start up to get a good foothold in the industry.

Preposition: on

• ladder: For many poor nations that thought they had gained a foothold on the ladder, the reversal will be quite ugly.

Noun used with modifier

• firm: Inspectors found many examples of good practice gaining a firm foothold.