to begin with
English
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Adverb
editto begin with (not comparable)
- initially, at first, at the very start
- Synonyms: at first, to start with
- To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room.
- in the first place
- Synonym: to start with
- Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!
Synonyms
edit- (at the very start): see Thesaurus:initially
- (in the first place):
Translations
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in the first place
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