Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) emerging; aspiring; improving; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim alt. (context idiomatic English) emerging; aspiring; improving; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim
WordNet
adj. working hard to promote an enterprise [syn: energetic, gumptious, industrious]
Usage examples of "up-and-coming".
She enjoyed the job from the start, because there was a kind of up-and-coming atmosphere present, even if the senior bookkeeper was a bit of an old goat.
She enjoyed the job from the start, because there was a kind of up-and-coming atmosphere present, even if the senior bookkeeper was a bit of an old goat.
Almost every year, I see, some up-and-coming cyberneticist contracts out and meets with an accident.
With his partner, noted painter and up-and-coming fantasy author Robyn Fielder, he was cofounder and codirector of the Iff Theater.
On a separate chart, the redheads advertized a local sideline—designing private languages for up-and-coming houses.
She has won the Romantic Times Award for Best Contemporary Fantasy, Affaire de Coeur's award for Best Up-and-Coming author of Futuristic, Fantasy and Paranormal Romance, and the PRISM award for Best Dark Paranormal in 1997.
Why would an up-and-coming brokerage house named Swanson and Schwartz sell out when their best years were ahead of them?
Back in the Sixties he'd been a freedom rider briefly-it was an up-and-coming New Frontier sort of thing to do, and there was always the hatred, heady as wine, the possibility of lovely violence, crimson and indigo.
If anyone could find out what had changed Max Perry from an up-and-coming leader to a career drop-out and impenetrable mental mystery, Graves could do it.
Some of the bitterest racists in town belong to the best families, and no Mississippi dirt farmer rants more often against the "niggers" than do some of Louisville's young up-and-coming executives just a few years out of college.
A vice admiral, two rear admirals, and an up-and-coming CIA field officer now depended on this young Marine to make the final decision.
Although I did not know it at the time, Lu was considered somewhat backward by such up-and-coming states as Key, whose capital city was regarded with rather the same awe that Sardis used to be by us.
Black tracksuits weren't the usual dress for the after-work crowd on the Street, even at Fernways, which catered to the younger up-and-coming setalthough the suit had a sort of shimmery quality to it up close.
This is what I said to Maria: If you give Stenzel his walking papers, if you not only forget about marrying him but throw him out altogether, I'll buy you a modern, up-and-coming delicatessen store.