fledgling
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈflɛdʒlɪŋ/
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incipiente
- As a fledgling entrepreneur, he faced many challenges while trying to launch his startup.
- a fledgling company
- a fledgling industry
- a fledgling network
Examples
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Even though considered by some as a fledgling in the pros, Saunders' experience and education have been intense during his first year.
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It was a step—albeit a small one—in the right direction for the fledgling program.
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You had a fledgling career and you made the decision to leave that and to start a business.
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No money, no opportunity to build out your idea or to build out your fledgling company that will promote your vision of the future.
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But for now, it's a fledgling company with no sales of actual vehicles, with no actual production that anybody has gotten their hands on.
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But ESPN was a fledgling network at that time.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony named this fledgling college after John Harvard.
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But the fledgling industry is on the verge of becoming a full-scale enterprise.
Academic text (1991) -
In business, performance can be measured through total sales or client satisfaction; entrepreneurs can be evaluated by the performance indices of their fledgling companies.
Academic text (1995) -
There he worked with a customer he always admired, an entrepreneur named Bob Magness who ran a fledgling—and nearly bankrupt—cable-television company called Tele-Communications Inc.
Blog text (29)
Synonyms
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3.7
A person new to a job or activity who has little experience
123
1.6
A person who has recently arrived in a place, joined a group, or started an activity
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1.0
A person who has just started to learn or do something
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4.7
A person who is new to a job or activity and has little experience
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3.4
A person new to an activity who has little experience
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2.4
A person new to a group or activity in their first year
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2.1
A person who is new to an activity
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8.4
A person new to a subject, skill, or belief
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4.3
A person new to a place who people notice
A person or group new to an activity and not yet experienced
A new small company in early stages, often using new technology
A person new to a job or group
Antonyms
Compounds
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fledgling used for a person or group comes from the same image: fledge 'to grow feathers' and -ling 'young one'. A helpful way to remember this is to think of someone who is new and still learning to 'fly' in their job or field, so a fledgling person or company is inexperienced but starting out.