Crossword clues for upstart
upstart
- Arrogant and presumptuous person
- Nouveau riche
- Presumptuous person
- Early riser
- One suddenly raised to importance
- Brash one
- Surprising and sometimes annoying success
- Suddenly rich sort
- Suddenly powerful sort
- Sudden, surprising success
- Presumptuous and arrogant type
- Person who has suddenly risen in wealth or importance
- Nouveau riche type
- Impudent newcomer
- Arrogant phenom
- Parvenu
- Surprise challenger
- ArrivГ©
- Society crasher
- Arriviste
- An arrogant or presumptuous person
- A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- Social climber
- Social climber puts about the stuff of the aesthete
- Nobody put rats out
- Arrogant newcomer
- Parvenu’s good times with prostitute
- Parvenu’s new business the wrong way round
- Brash newcomer put off entertaining celebrity
- Jerk at university is leading one in class of 12
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upstart \Up*start"\, v. i.
To start or spring up suddenly.
--Spenser. Tennyson.
Upstart \Up"start`\, n.
One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
--Bacon.(Bot.) The meadow saffron.
--Dr. Prior.
Upstart \Up"start`\, a.
Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence. ``A race of
upstart creatures.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
self-important and presumptuous n. One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous. v
to rise suddenly, to spring
WordNet
adj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position [syn: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a)]
n. an arrogant or presumptuous person
a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class [syn: parvenu, nouveau-riche, arriviste]
a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an errect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright [syn: kip]
Wikipedia
Upstart is an event-based replacement for the traditional init daemon the method by which several Unix-like computer operating systems perform tasks when the computer is started. It was written by Scott James Remnant, a former employee of Canonical Ltd.
Upstart is a peer-to-peer lending platform. The founding team includes Dave Girouard, a former VP of Apps for Google, Paul Gu, a Thiel Fellow, and Anna Mongayt, who worked for 5 years at Google where she ran global Enterprise Customer Programs and Gmail Consumer Operations.
Upstart first launched with an Income Share Agreement (ISA), which enabled individuals to raise money by agreeing to share a percent of their future income. Individual profiles were listed on the site for 60 days, during which investors would make offers to upstart to give them money in exchange for a percent of their future income for 5 or 10 years. In May 2014, the company stopped offering this funding option
In April 2014, Upstart began offering a traditional 3-year loan. In addition to using traditional underwriting criteria—FICO score, credit report and income—Upstart uses its income prediction model, which considers academic variables— colleges attended, area of study, GPA, and standardized test scores—and work history to develop a statistical model of the borrower’s financial capacity and personal propensity to repay.
Upstart raised a $1.75M seed round from First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, NEA, Google Ventures, Crunchfund and Mark Cuban. They subsequently raised a series A round of $5.9M which included new investors Eric Schmidt, Marc Benioff, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and Collaborative Fund Jessica Jackley and Bob Kerrey serve as advisors to the company.
Upstart is a for-profit company which makes its money by charging borrowers an origination fee between 1% and 6% of the amount they borrow. It was launched in April 2012 and its beta site went live in August 2012.
Upstart has thousands of borrowers and a blend of both retail and institutional investors. The company issues personal loans ranging from $1,000- $50,000
Upstart is a public art work by Australian-American artist Clement Meadmore located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The sculpture is an abstract, twisting form made of weathering steel; it is installed on the lawn.
Upstart may refer to:
- Upstart, a process management daemon used in several operating systems.
- HMS Upstart (P65), a Royal Navy U-class submarine
- Upstart (company), a crowdfunding website for recent college graduates
- Upstart (sculpture), a public art work at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee
- Upstart (horse), winner of the Dicken Medal
- Angelic Upstarts, British punk band
- Upstarts (comics), comic book characters
Usage examples of "upstart".
So why did you have to humiliate yourself like that before an impudent upstart, a mere adolescent like me?
Horn all of a blood far more ancient than his, upstart mercenary that he was, dabbler in forbidden things, one who companied with the unspeakable Kolders.
I want to know, in travelling about with an arrogant old tyrant, his blind daughter, upstart, dashy wife, and her two fine-lady nieces?
At thirty, he was developing a slight fussiness of manner which reminded Servilia too painfully of that underbred upstart from Arpinum, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
There is a certain obnoxious little yuwenghau, an upstart godling, named Dynanna who would be perfect for your healing.
I have already seen one woman nearly destroy my family, and I am not about to let an upstart laundress come in and do the same.
And there were plenty of carping fools in the army who would be glad that the upstart from the ranks had at last got his comeuppance, all of which meant that Sharpe must strike back at Loup or else lose his reputation as a lucky and victorious soldier.
I had already decided that there was another thing Great God Dangerfield had garbled: far from being an ancient race, the pigmies are neoteric, upstart usurpers who have appeared only recently on the scene to oust the peke and bear people.
Maia recalled the var-trash romance novel she had read back in prison, about a world spun topsy-turvy, in which stodgy clans collapsed along with the stable conditions that had made them thrive, opening fresh niches to be filled by upstart variants.
The upstart who has troubled his own house and usurped rightful authority within the Padi region has been refused admittance.
Lord Roberd was not accustomed to being dismissed by young upstarts, whatever their rank.
Perhaps Portolanus was only some upstart magician who had come upon the secret cache of the Archimage by accident.
The parkland had once belonged to the Maleson family but was now owned by people Bianca considered upstarts and commoners.
The Rodriguezes are deeply offended at having been outbid by upstarts.
Horsethief Shorty was a boozing, tall-story upstart with a propensity for never making the same mistake twice.