Определение to start out в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
If someone or something starts out as a particular thing, they are that thing at the beginning although they change later. Daly was a fast-talking Irish-American who had started out as a salesman What started out as fun quickly became hard work
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
If you start out by doing something, you do it at the beginning of an activity. We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector