startup

See also: start up and start-up

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/, [ˈstɑɹɾˌʌp]

Etymology 1

From the verb phrase start up.

Alternative forms

• start-up

Noun

startup (plural startups)

1. The act or process of starting a process or machine.
2. A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

Antonyms

• shutdown

Translations

act or process of starting a process or machine

• Finnish: käynnistys (fi), käynnistäminen (fi)
• Galician: arranque (gl) m
• Indonesian: inisialisasi, pengaktifan (id)
• Italian: avvio (it) m, inizio (it) m
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• Polish: uruchamianie (pl) n
• Portuguese: inicialização (pt) f, arranque m
• Russian: за́пуск (ru) m (zápusk), пуск (ru) m (pusk), включе́ние (ru) n (vključénije)
• Spanish: arranque (es) m

new company or organization or business venture

• Armenian: ստարտափ (startapʻ)
• Czech: startup (cs) m
• Finnish: startup (fi), aloittava yritys, alkava yritys, kasvuyritys
• French: startup (fr) f, jeune pousse (fr) f
• Georgian: სტარტაპი (sṭarṭaṗi), სტარტაპ-კომპანია (sṭarṭaṗ-ḳomṗania), ახალწამოწყებული ბიზნესი (axalc̣amoc̣q̇ebuli biznesi)
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• Japanese: スタートアップ (sutātoappu), ベンチャー (ja) (benchā) (venture)
• Malay: syarikat permulaan (ms)
• Russian: старта́п (ru) m (startáp), старт-а́п m (start-áp), старта́п-компа́ния f (startáp-kompánija)
• Spanish: empresa emergente f

Etymology 2

start +‎ up, describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑːtəp/

Noun

startup (plural startups)

1. (obsolete, dialect, chiefly in the plural) a kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people
2. (obsolete, dialect, chiefly in the plural) a kind of gaiter or legging

References

• “startup, n1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, January 2015.

Anagrams

• upstart

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Czech

Noun

1. startup (new company or organization or business venture)

Derived terms

• startupový

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Spanish

Noun

startup f (plural startups)

1. startup