to begin with
Adverb
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Adverb
to begin with (not comparable)
- initially, at first, at the very start
- To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room.
- in the first place
- Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!
- (at the very start) at first; see also Thesaurus:initially
- (in the first place)
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