ground floor

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noun

the floor of a building at or nearest to ground level.

Informal. an advantageous position or opportunity in a business matter, especially in a new enterprise: She took the job in the new company because she wanted to get in on the ground floor.

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Origin of ground floor

First recorded in 1595–1605

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Examples from the Web for ground floor

Entering Morbid Anatomy from an unremarkable, industrial street in Brooklyn, its ground-floor coffee shop/bookstore is buzzing.
Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing Horrors|Nina Strochlic|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He had been renting his current place—a ground-floor apartment in a house on a hill—for the past four years.
In Sandy’s Wake, a New York Doorman Without a Home|Abigail Pesta|November 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The library forms part of the Museum, which occupies a ground-floor wing of the castle.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete|Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
In one room on the ground-floor there was a great collection of mechanical toys.
Morocco|S.L. Bensusan

"It will do nicely," she told him; and together they went down the broad marble stair to the ground-floor.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush|Francis Lynde
There was a light in the window of a ground-floor room; he approached.
Notre-Dame de Paris|Victor Hugo
The only approach to it on the ground-floor lay through the butler's bedroom, of which you might call it but a cupboard.
Wandering Heath|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British Dictionary definitions for ground floor

ground floor

noun

the floor of a building level or almost level with the ground

get in on the ground floor or start from the ground floor informal

to enter a business, organization, etc, at the lowest level
to be in a project, undertaking, etc, from its inception

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ground floor

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ground floor

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