up-and-coming meaning

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up-and-coming (adjective): working hard to promote an enterprise.

Definition of up-and-coming

working hard to promote an enterprise
Synonyms: energetic, gumptious, industrious
Similar: enterprising

up-and-coming in a sentence

Is he the man painted by the newspapers as an up-and-coming scholar?

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