zero hournoun [ U ]
uk/ˈzɪə.rəʊ ˌaʊər/us/ˈzɪr.oʊ ˌaʊr/the time at which something, especially some type of military activity, is planned to begin
Indian English in the Indian parliament, the time during which members of parliament can ask questions without arranging to ask them first
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Beginnings and starts
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- clean
- go/be back to square one idiom
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- jumping-off point
- seed
- square
- starting point
- starting time
- the outset
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- thin
- trigger
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