start (something) up
phrasal verbwithstartverbuk/stɑːt/us/stɑːrt/
(BUSINESS)
If abusinessor otherorganizationstartsup, or if someonestartsone up, it iscreatedandstartstooperate:
Manysmallbusinessesstartedup in the 1980s tocaterto thisgrowingmarket.
We ought tostartup adramagroup.
Success & failure in business
- administration
- axe
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be running on fumesidiom
- belly
- dying
- fold
- go darkidiom
- go to the wallidiom
- growth hacker
- growth hacking
- have a corner on a marketidiom
- receiver
- soft launch
- spin
- spinsomethingoff
- subscale
- turn around
- turn round
(ENGINE)
If avehicleorenginestartsup, or someonestartsit up, itstartstowork:
Thecarwouldn'tstartup thismorning.
Machines - Functioning
- action
- actuator
- asthmatically
- commission
- deactivation
- firesomeoneup
- function assomething/someone
- functional
- functionality
- functioning
- in commissionidiom
- operate
- operational
- order
- power
- reset
- self-driving
- start
- tick over
- torpor