Usually means: Gaining popularity and showing potential.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word up-and-coming:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. up-and-coming: Merriam-Webster
  2. up-and-coming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. up-and-coming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. up-and-coming, up-and-coming: Collins English Dictionary
  5. up-and-coming: Vocabulary.com
  6. up-and-coming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. up-and-coming: Wiktionary
  8. up-and-coming: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. up-and-coming: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. up-and-coming: Dictionary.com
  11. up-and-coming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. up-and-coming: Rhymezone
  13. up-and-coming: FreeDictionary.org
  14. up-and-coming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. up-and-coming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. up-and-coming: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  working hard to promote an enterprise

Similar:
industrious, enterprising, gumptious, energetic, up and coming, nascent, emerging, fledgling, emergent, enascent, more...

Opposite:
declining, fading, stagnant, deteriorating

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Similar:
industrious, enterprising, gumptious, energetic, up and coming, nascent, emerging, fledgling, emergent, enascent, more...

Opposite:
declining, fading, stagnant, deteriorating



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