outset

The outset is the beginning.

(noun)

An example of an outset is the start of a long hike.

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See outset in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a setting out; beginning; start

See outset in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
The initial stage of something; the beginning: Problems arose at the very outset.

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