headstart

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A form of head start — An advantage consisting in starting a competition or task earlier than might be expected; given (or taken), for example, prior to the beginning of a race.

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Meanings

nounheadstart (plural headstarts)

plural headstarts

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of head start.

    Some of the outrage is no doubt deserved—I have no patience for bigots myself, […] As a presumed lifetime beneficiary of demographic headstarts, I’m often implicated by definition myself, a situation I can live with. But I rarely entertain an urge to either pile on or argue back.

    2016, Chuck Eddy, “’10s”, in Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 244

Origin

From head + start.

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APA

headstart. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headstart

MLA

“headstart.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headstart. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “headstart,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headstart.

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