springboard

Meanings

Noun

• A diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water.
• A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or vault onto other equipment.
• Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something.

Verb

• To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.

Origin

• spring + board