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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
start-up
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ The financial results came despite investments for start-up businesses and to handle increased telephone usage.
▪ There were no start-up business opportunities that I could afford.
company
▪ The time has come for start-up companies like mine to turn all our efforts into something concrete.
▪ In short, the start-up company receives not only funding, but valuable advice to help it avoid pitfalls.
▪ The case is based on a real start-up company for whom the author worked as a consultant on financial planning and valuation.
▪ This is the project of Odin Corporation, a new start-up company in Manhattan, Kansas.
▪ Many small start-up companies will fail in the 1990s just as they have always failed.
costs
▪ The start-up costs of a travel agency have been relatively small.
▪ Bush said his office is making $ 30, 000 available to help pay start-up costs.
▪ But the start-up costs are huge.
▪ See what the normal start-up costs are for renting and furnishing an office, a salesroom, or a studio.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ start-up companies
▪ a start-up budget of $90,000
▪ Several start-up Net companies saw their share prices rocket in the first few years, only to see them plunge as the recession hit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But to take ViaCord beyond the start-up phase, Fisher this year plans to seek $ 6 million in venture capital.
▪ It provides start-up dialogues, macro dialogues and exit dialogues to open and close applications.
▪ Kenyon wound up shaving not one but three seconds off the start-up time, sparing a hundred extra souls from the Reaper.
▪ See what the normal start-up costs are for renting and furnishing an office, a salesroom, or a studio.
▪ The company, called VacTex Corp., has raised $ 1 million in start-up funds.
▪ The time has come for start-up companies like mine to turn all our efforts into something concrete.
▪ With savings of £20,000 you could expect to finance a franchise with a start-up cost and working capital of £60,000.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ More understandably, perhaps, was our spelling the new software start-up Kapre Software Inc Capri.
▪ For new start-ups, the figure rises to over three-quarters.
small
▪ Former rally driver Jean Denton is battling to reduce red tape and bureaucratic burdens on small firms and start-ups.
▪ Start-Up A second type of small business start-up will have the advantage of venture backing from a larger company.
▪ These networks belong to several domains-universities, government institutions, large private companies, and small entrepreneurial start-ups.
▪ It is not necessary to be a small start-up.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Compared with the rest of the country, California now has above-average growth in jobs, exports and business start-ups.
▪ Start-Up A second type of small business start-up will have the advantage of venture backing from a larger company.
software
▪ More understandably, perhaps, was our spelling the new software start-up Kapre Software Inc Capri.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Internet start-ups
▪ There were 4000 start-ups in Silicon Valley in 1998.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Compared with the rest of the country, California now has above-average growth in jobs, exports and business start-ups.
▪ Details of the USWeb plan were not available, but sources say the start-up will offer prospective franchisees a turnkey operation.
▪ Former rally driver Jean Denton is battling to reduce red tape and bureaucratic burdens on small firms and start-ups.
▪ I was peripherally involved in a somewhat obstructionist way in the start-up of C-SPAN.
▪ It is not necessary to be a small start-up.
▪ New start-ups provided 14 percent, and new branches 18 percent.
▪ Those transient troubles occurred on especially cold mornings at initial start-up.
▪ Typical of such an arrangement is the funding provided by Compaq Computers to a start-up in 1986.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Start-up

Start-up \Start"-up`\ (st[aum]rt"[u^]p`), n.

  1. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. A kind of high rustic shoe. [Obs.]
    --Drayton.

    A startuppe, or clownish shoe.
    --Spenser.

Start-up

Start-up \Start"-up`\, a. Upstart. [R.]
--Walpole.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
start-up

also startup, 1550s, "upstart," from verbal phrase (attested from c.1200 in sense "rise up;" 1590s as "come suddenly into being"); see start (v.) + up (adv.). Meaning "action of starting up" is from 1845. See start (v.) + up (adv.).

Wiktionary
start-up

n. 1 (alternative spelling of startup English) 2 One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. 3 (context obsolete English) A kind of high rustic shoe.

Wikipedia
Start-Up

Start-Up (also known as Start-Up 2000) is a PC video game in which players must try to build a successful business start-up from venture capitalists to IPO's. Start-Up is published by Monte Cristo and distributed by Electronic Arts.

Usage examples of "start-up".

Open Innovation companies regard the VC community, and the start-ups the community funds, as mutualistic participants in a complex ecosystem of firms that create, recombine, compete, imitate, and interact with each other.

Pines Generique, like most biotech start-ups, was undercapitalized, and could only afford a few rolls of the dice.

Pines Generique, like most biotech start-ups, was undercapitalized, and could only afford a few rolls of the dice.

Something like sixty percent of biotech start-ups failed, so the danger of losing some or all of an investment to bankruptcy was very real.

A fluid labor market permitted even start-up firms to pioneer the commercialization of promising new technological opportunities.

I thought the cryptogamic soils in the storm start-up zones would have dampened them, or even stopped them.

If Kapor had stuck with Lotus, as his colleague friend and rival Bill Gates has stuck with his own software start-up, Microsoft, then Kapor would likely have much the same fortune Gates has -- somewhere in the neighborhood of three billion, give or take a few hundred million.

He soon solved this small problem and the other minor start-up difficulties that plague many new businesses and quickly discovered exactly what his customers wanted.

There was quite a mix of people here post-hippies, high-tech start-up folks, transients, surfers, college kids.

Online advertising was supposed to amortize start-up and operational costs and lead to profitability even as it subsidized free access to costly content.

Some of it comes from start-ups and scams, some of it's generated by programs called spambots, which got loose in the system about fifty years ago and which have been beavering away ever since.

My agent on Manticore will be our chief financial officer, and I'll have him cut a check immediately for a few million austins for start-up costs.

The new colony’s start-up population will be gestated in exowombs and cared for by AIs during their childhood.

But in the inevitable pressure cooker of rough times, particularly in start-up, it was clear that something had to give.

You see instead a slot that is waiting for this RISC, a reduced instruction set chip with tons of RAM--random access memory--and plenty of PROM--programmed read only memory--for start-up and function.