0 a board that can bend, helping people to jump higher when jumping or diving into a swimming pool or when doing gymnastics --
1 something that provides you either with the opportunity to follow a particular plan of action, or the encouragement that is needed to make it successful: --
2 a board that bends when you jump on the end of it, used to help you jump higher in some sports or physical exercises --
3 something that is a basis from which other things grow or develop: --
The session will be used as a springboard for a short survey of some theoretical perspectives that underpin music therapy practice.
Even so it was only a springboard to the outside world of meaningful social action, not a haven to which family members retreated.
They joined in our events for young women, and devoured our publications, because it gave them the springboard for taking action themselves.
You transfer energy to the springboard, and you recover the energy when it pushes you up into the air.
Given the relatively weak inferences that can be made from observational studies, this work may best be viewed as a springboard for further research.
Such brief treatments can nonetheless be a valuable instructional tool, used as a springboard for class discussion.
In some instances, the distinction between civil society and formal politics was blurred, with civil society organisations functioning as a springboard to state politics.
Let's welcome it and hope that it's the springboard to a much, much slimmer successor a quarter century or so from now.