startup
or start-up
the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
a new business venture, or a new commercial or industrial project: a small, 5-month-old internet startup.
of or relating to the beginning of such a venture or project, especially to an investment made to initiate it: high start-up costs for construction of a new facility.
Origin of startup
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How to use startup in a sentence
Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
Google was once a struggling start-up with little money to spend, but that was a long, long time ago … before the music died.
Cheshire County Jail in Keene, N.H., looks more like a small college campus or a tech start-up than a house of detention.
‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain | Sarah Shourd | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn other words: cut out the fat, remove middle managers, focus on what makes the business run, and be more like a start-up.
Harvest Power, a young start-up based in Waltham, Massachusetts, had a different vision for food waste.
If a professor called his name suddenly, he would start up and answer, "Coming, sir—coming!"
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellAt seven o'clock, a horrible din makes you start up in bed and tremble from head to foot.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellLaughing at intervals that low gurgle which sprang from fear, as some wild bird would start up at his approach, he plodded on.
The Underworld | James C. WelshThe way that she seemed to start up just when—so soon after we had lost dear granny, and in a sense our home.'
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa MolesworthSomething made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight.
Dracula | Bram Stoker
British Dictionary definitions for start up
to come or cause to come into being for the first time; originate
(intr) to spring or jump suddenly from a position or place
to set in or go into motion, activity, etc: he started up the engine; the orchestra started up
of or relating to input, usually financial, made to establish a new project or business: a start-up mortgage
a business enterprise that has been launched recently
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Other Idioms and Phrases with startup
Begin to operate, especially a machine or engine, as in Start up the motor so we can get going. [First half of 1900s]
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