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What does ‘Kick Off’ mean?
Related forms: (transitive and separable), (intransitive)
To start a football match. Figuratively to begin, to start, to initiate. To start an action. Phrasal noun: The kick off. The first kick of the match. The start of a match. Soccer, rugby.
“The kick off is at 3 P.M”.
“To kick off the meeting, I will introduce everybody”.
“University lectures kick off tomorrow”.
“To kick off with something. This is talking about the activity you start doing at the beginning of the overall task. The first you do when you start something”.
“We will kick the meeting off with the first item on the agenda”.
“The meal kicked off with pate, which was followed by roast duck”.
“You kick a ball with your foot. Here the with belongs to the noun, the same is true for kick off // with noun”.
Watch: ‘Kick Off’ explained
Video transcript
To kick off. To begin something. To kick off with something. Ok, to start, to initiate, to begin. So for example: The football match kicks off at 3 P.M. Kicks off. The first kick of the match. Begins. OK. To kick off I would like to talk about the weather. To start with. OK. Notice to kick off normally intransitive. Well it can be. To kick off the meeting. To kick off with this subject. OK. So, to kick off, to begin. I would like to kick off by saying how happy I am that you are here. OK. To begin with. So, kick off, to begin. To kick off with something, to begin with something. So, thanks for watching and I'll see you in another video. Bye for now.
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