A foothold is a flat or steady area on which you can put your foot when you're climbing. Part of the trick to rock climbing is learning to find good footholds.
A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may treead or rest securely; footing.
Noun
an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments; "the town became a beachhead in the campaign to ban smoking outdoors"; "they are presently attempting to gain a foothold in the Russian market"
Noun
a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing
Noun
an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies; "an attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines"; "the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar"
n.
A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one
may tread or rest securely; footing.
Foothold
A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may treead or rest securely; footing.
Usage Examples
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
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