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What is a foothold?

What is a foothold? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (climbing) A solid grip with the feet.
  2. (military) airhead, beachhead, bridgehead, lodgement.
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Norma was an actress and had worked with The Old Vic, but, bored with walk-on parts, she was trying to get a foothold elsewhere.
The thought was rather alien to hard-nosed capitalist marketeers and took many years to secure a foothold.
Unforgiving dry, and tempestuous rainy seasons ensure that mankind's foothold here will forever be tenuous.
We need to articulate the fact that trappers using foothold traps was essential to this unprecedented reintroduction success.
Treads and steps of the accommodation ladder should be so designed that an adequate and safe foothold is given at the operative angles.
Scotland has had tremendous success in the past in attracting investment by foreign firms looking for a foothold in Europe.

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