starting time

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English

Noun

starting time (countable and uncountable, plural starting times)

  1. The moment in time at which something is scheduled or supposed to begin.
    Synonym: start time
    • 1842, William Howitt, The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany, page 443:
      If you were not in your place in the carriage ten minutes before the starting time, or at the first ringing of the bell, you would be locked out.
    • 1850, Chapman and Hall (publisher), The Florist and Garden Miscellany - Volume 2, page 236:
      12:25 is the starting-time; and, hark! there is the bell—the whistle—the ‘go-ahead’.

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