0 an area of land near the sea or a river that an attacking army has taken control of and from where it can move forward into enemy country:
The troops quickly established a beachhead and were preparing to advance.
1 a position in a market that a company achieves and that it hopes to make stronger in the future:
The beachhead is kept small by judicial discretion-but at the level of questions rather than answers.
When law is working well, the beachhead is kept small.
Judgments involving absolute borderline cases give the legal realists a beachhead.
On landfall, the thin-walled clinker-built ships needed to be beached and cleaned out to avoid rotting, and the resultant midden provided a beachhead from which the introduced biota could disperse.
Perhaps it could serve as a beachhead to build on, and to push the process of developing common sense, which we should have pushed earlier.
The inevitable difficulties of operating a beachhead under attack had been exacerbated by their removal, which might explain some of the feelings of chaos among the new arrivals.
These are not once-for-all commando raids but, having established a foothold on the beachhead, we must go on to the bridgehead and expand and hold a portion of that market.
It landed a small airborne force and then sent landing parties in, supporting them by ship bombardment, and reinforcements were sent in until the beachhead was secured.
