start (sth) up
— phrasal verb with start uk/stɑːt/us/stɑːrt/verb
(BUSINESS)
If a business or other organization starts up, or if someone starts one up, it is created and starts to operate:
Many small businesses started up in the 1980s to cater to this growing market.
We ought to start up a drama group.
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Success & failure in business
- administration
- axe
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- branch
- branch out
- collapse
- establish
- fold
- foreclose
- growing pains
- joint venture
- liquidator
- locate
- moribund
- official receiver
- organic growth
- receivership
- shut (sth) down
- spin
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(ENGINE)
If a vehicle or engine starts up, or someone starts it up, it starts to work:
The car wouldn't start up this morning.
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Machines - Functioning
- asthmatically
- faulty
- fire sth up
- function as sth/sb
- functionally
- operation
- operational
- operative
- order
- pack
- pack up
- peg
- perform
- play up
- right
- roll
- start
- tick
- torpor
- work
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