Other forms: startups
A startup is a brand-new company built for fast growth, usually in technology and usually short of money. A tech startup, work at a startup, the startup raised four million.
It is not simply any new business: a corner shop opening this week is a new business and not a startup, because the word carries an expectation of rapid scaling and outside investment. The vocabulary around it is specific — founder, seed round, runway, pivot, exit — and most of it is American in origin. Note the spelling, which is settling on one word, and startup as an adjective: startup culture, startup costs, which means something quite different in accounting.
1nounstartupA new company aiming at fast growth.
“The startup had eleven staff and no revenue.”
2nounstartingThe starting of a machine or a process.
“The old engine makes a strange knocking noise on startup.”
startup is a new company.
Also accepted in games: start-up
Deverbal from start up.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Work & Careers, Business & Money