The earliest stage of a new business venture. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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start-up ˈstart-up adjective
start-up costs, spending etc are connected with beginning and running a new business or new business activity:
• a start-up budget of £90,000
• The company saw its profits drop because of the effect of start-up costs at a new plastics molding plant.
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start-up UK US (also startup) noun
► [C] (also start-up business, start-up company) WORKPLACE, COMMERCE 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]
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New operations had had produced losses during their start-up phase.
Financial and business terms. 2012.