upstart

Converse of object

• show: I decided that I would show this young upstart how to attack a good bend.
• consider: In the rest of the business world, most 33-year-olds are considered upstarts.
• call: It is a perpetual covenant, and God himself said so, not some upstart called Paul.

Adjective modifier

• young: A couple of miles further on I passed the young upstart barely going faster than walking pace.
• little: We thought they were little upstarts, you know.
• new: Some residents at the time regarded the Pavilion as a ' new fangled upstart of a cinema ' .
• brash: Because if this brash young upstart is to be believed, acquiring these hard-won skills is now an easy matter.

Modifies a noun

• company: Then, in the middle of the first decade of the new century, the monopoly was broken by small, upstart companies.
• rival: His book, Crazy Like a Fox, focuses on the epic battle between the established news channel and its upstart rival.
• state: In one case, the King of Spain sent a fleet to crush one of these upstart rogue states.
• web-browser: When you were talking about a " certain upstart web-browser " that tried to clone existing ones, I was thinking of IE!
• firm: Established and conservative ways of operating are no longer strong enough weapons with which to fight off the midsized, upstart pharmaceutical firms.
• engine: For Google to hold its own against upstart search engines, it must deliver on its PageRank promise.

Noun used with modifier

• telecommunications: If anything keeps executives of old-line phone companies up at night, itâs probably telecommunications upstarts like FON.