start out
— phrasal verb with start uk/stɑːt/us/stɑːrt/verb
C1 to begin your life, or the part of your life when you work, in a particular way:
My dad started out as a salesperson in a shop.
More examples
- He started out as a teacher and only began writing in his thirties.
- What started out as a part-time job soon became a full-time occupation.
- She started out as a waitress and was spotted by a model scout.
- She started out life as Norma Jean Mortenson.
- It's hard to believe she started out as a magician's assistant.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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