Usually means: Start construction on a project.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. break ground: Merriam-Webster
  2. break ground: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break ground: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break ground: Wiktionary
  5. break ground: Dictionary.com
  6. Break Ground: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. break ground: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break ground: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break ground: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (break ground)

verb:  (literally) To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
verb:  (figurative) To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
verb:  (nautical, of an anchor) To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
verb:  (of an aircraft) To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.

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