Usually means: Initial stages of a period.
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  1. early on: Merriam-Webster
  2. early on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. early on: Vocabulary.com
  4. early-on: Wordnik
  5. early on: Wiktionary
  6. early on: Dictionary.com
  7. early on: Rhymezone
  8. early on: FreeDictionary.org
  9. early on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. early on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. early on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. early on: Legal dictionary

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  1. early on: Medical dictionary

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  1. early on: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (early on)

▸ adjective:  Early in a process.
▸ adverb:  At an early stage.

Similar:
early, preliminal, early doors, preinitiated, prejob, ultraearly, precritical, preintroductory, postpreliminary, earlyish, more...

Opposite:
late, delayed, tardy

Types:
in beginning, initially, at first, start with, firstly, more...

Phrases:
knowing something early on, since early on, early on in, more...

Adjectives:
early, historical, anon, past, old, ex, bygone, sometime, preterite, quondam

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Similar:
early, preliminal, early doors, preinitiated, prejob, ultraearly, precritical, preintroductory, postpreliminary, earlyish, more...

Opposite:
late, delayed, tardy

Types:
in beginning, initially, at first, start with, firstly, more...

Phrases:
knowing something early on, since early on, early on in, more...

Adjectives:
early, historical, anon, past, old, ex, bygone, sometime, preterite, quondam



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