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• n  a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation
  the Germans were desperately trying to contain the Anzio beachhead
• n  an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments
  the town became a beachhead in the campaign to ban smoking outdoors

• From the beginning there was no doubt that the Allies' beachhead thrust at Nettuno was full of hazard.
• Then they moved to the Anzio beachhead.
• Claims Hart: "It's a beachhead that has been established.

• foothold

News & Articles

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• GE Gives Financial Backing to Siberia-Made Motorcycles
  Ural Motorcycles have a beachhead in America already; now GE financing will help expand it.        
  June 14, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• Laura DiDio in Computerworld
  Apple has a beachhead in business. Where it once had just 1-to-2% market share in corporate, now they're up to 8-to-10%,DiDio added.
• John Kerry in AFP
  The United States is not in Afghanistan to make it our 51st state -- but to make sure it does not become an Al-Qaeda narco-state and terrorist beachhead capable of destabilizing neighboring Pakistan,Kerry wrote in The Washington Post.
• Eric Schmidt in USA Today
  Schmidt described Google's corporate search engine as "a strategic beachhead for solving interesting problems" in corporate America.