start-up
noun
variants
or startup
often attributive
1
: the act or an instance of setting in operation or motion
2
: a fledgling business enterprise
Examples of start-up in a Sentence
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Some once-promising start-ups have already cratered and the suite of flashy products launched by the biggest players in the AI race — OpenAI, Microsoft and Google — have yet to upend the way people work and communicate with each other.
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Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
This grill has an easy twist-start ignition for effortless start-up, and the stainless steel finish is durable and resistant to weather, rust and other environmental dangers.
—Kelsey Chapman, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
The main goal of these relationships is to align programs that create jobs, pipelines for jobs, develop entrepreneurs and start-up businesses, apprenticeship and workforce investment program opportunities with employment needs, throughout the county and particularly in disadvantaged communities.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
Her first job is at a start-up, but, this being the work-from-home era, Lee spends less time gossiping by the water cooler and more sending flirty texts to the head of data from her kitchen table.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Win-Win isn’t the only start-up producing cocoa-free chocolate, which is similar in concept to animal-free meat.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Teal’s parent company, Red Cat, had also owned two consumer drone start-ups, Fat Shark and Rotor Riot, which sourced from China to keep their costs down.
—Eva Dou, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
The default start-up mode is GT, which makes 80 percent of the power and torque available.
—Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
These are the models of well-being promoted by Fella Health, a start-up that prescribes buzzy weight-loss drugs to men.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
This grill has an easy twist-start ignition for effortless start-up, and the stainless steel finish is durable and resistant to weather, rust and other environmental dangers.
—Kelsey Chapman, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
The main goal of these relationships is to align programs that create jobs, pipelines for jobs, develop entrepreneurs and start-up businesses, apprenticeship and workforce investment program opportunities with employment needs, throughout the county and particularly in disadvantaged communities.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
Her first job is at a start-up, but, this being the work-from-home era, Lee spends less time gossiping by the water cooler and more sending flirty texts to the head of data from her kitchen table.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Win-Win isn’t the only start-up producing cocoa-free chocolate, which is similar in concept to animal-free meat.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Teal’s parent company, Red Cat, had also owned two consumer drone start-ups, Fat Shark and Rotor Riot, which sourced from China to keep their costs down.
—Eva Dou, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
The default start-up mode is GT, which makes 80 percent of the power and torque available.
—Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
These are the models of well-being promoted by Fella Health, a start-up that prescribes buzzy weight-loss drugs to men.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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“Start-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/start-up. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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