start-up
start-up
noun
(alsostartup)ukus
[ C ] WORKPLACE, COMMERCE (alsostart-up business); (start-up company)
a business that has just been started:
a business/dotcom/internet start-up
He transformed the business from a start-up into one of the world's biggest mobile phone companies.
[ U or S ]
the act or process of starting or making something start:
The startup of our manufacturing operations in China continues on an accelerated schedule.
Once you have disabled the program, reboot the computer to see if its absence causes a problem on startup.

start-up

adjective[ before noun ]
New operations had had produced losses during their start-up phase.

Examples of start (something) up

start (something) up
The start-up code calls the first function and then enters an infinite loop.
Since we were a start-up with no history of working together, we decided to take small steps.
In addition to start-up financing needs, interviewees note that lack of access to working capital is a problem.
The strategy addresses the needs of school age children by offering capital grants or support towards the start-up costs of out of school services.
Electricity and petroleum fuels have start-up costs and consumption-dependent charges.
Selfemployment was and is more profitable than hired labour, but requires tools, access to materials and spare parts, and some start-up capital.
Difficulties of financing the stove investment and the start-up costs of petroleum fuels are often mentioned as barriers for uptake.
Financing, or access to capital, is essential to the start-up activities of horticultural auctions.
He amassed his start-up capital from a circle of relatives and established a closely-held, yet highly private, family partnership.
The asymptotics of the solutions of (1), (3) near the front and to start-up is self-similar of the second kind, and consists of two domains.
To some extent, homes started by a state enterprise also had help from their parent work unit in the form of start-up capital and buildings.
The possible implications of this process for fast current penetration in the tokamak start-up phase and the triggering of solar flares is discussed.
The first includes organizations that are produced from statically predefined instructions, possibly from an external third party or during start-up.
Anesthesia costs consisted of the start-up costs and increased for each hour the anesthesia was maintained.
Another start-up model has emerged, based explicitly on the marketing of genetic information.
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