Usually means: Platform used for launching upward.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word springboard:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. springboard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. springboard: Merriam-Webster
  3. springboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. springboard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. springboard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. springboard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Springboard, springboard: Wordnik
  8. springboard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. springboard: Wiktionary
  10. springboard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. springboard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. springboard: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. springboard: Dictionary.com
  14. springboard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SpringBoard, Springboard (business), Springboard (disambiguation), Springboard (gymnastics), Springboard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Springboard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. springboard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. springboard: Rhymezone
  19. Springboard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. springboard: FreeDictionary.org
  21. springboard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. springboard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. springboard: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. springboard: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Springboard: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Springboard: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform that propels one into the air, used for diving or gymnastics.
noun:  (figuratively) Something that acts as a catalyst to begin or accelerate an action or growth.
verb:  (transitive) To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.

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