Today’s “Word of the Day” is “beachhead” and it is a noun meaning “the (military/business) strategy of winning a small (border/market) area that becomes a stronghold, and from which you can move forward to the rest of the territory/market“.
Example Sentence: On the positive side, India is seen around the world as an important country and an emerging higher education power. It is the world’s second largest “exporter” of students, with 4,61,792 students studying abroad (according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics). And India has the world’s second largest higher education system. Foreign countries and universities will be eager to establish a “beachhead” in India and interested in providing opportunities for home campus students to learn about Indian business, society, and culture to participate in growing trade and other relations.
This word is present in The Hindu article A Harvard branch in India, prospects and challenges and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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