to begin with

adv

Definitions

  1. Initially, at first, at the very start.

    • To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room.
  2. In the first place.

    • Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for to begin with. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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